Chapter 316: Chapter 316

XVII Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat Marius dashed out of the barricade, Combeferre followed him. But he was too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of cartridges; Marius bore the child. “Alas!” he thought, “that which the father had done for his father, he was requiting to the son; only, Thénardier had brought back his father alive; he was bringing back the child dead.” When Marius reentered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, like the c…