Excerpt from Les Miserables, Vol. 4: The Idyl of the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue Saint-Denis; Volume II The reader has understood that Eponine, having recognized through the railings the inhabitants of the house in the Rue Plumet, to which Magnon had sent her, had begun by diverting the bandits from the Rue Plumet, then had led Marius there, and that after several days of ecstasy before the railings, Marius, drawn by that force which attracts iron to the loadstone, and the lover toward the stones of which the house in which she whom he loves resides, had finished by entering the garden of Cosette, as Romeo did the garden of Juliet. It had even been more easy for him than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to esca lade a wall, Marius had only to force a little aside one of the bars of the decrepit railing which was loose in its rusty setting, after the manner of the teeth of old people. Marius was thin and passed easily. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.