Les Misérables Volume II Book 5 Chapter 5 - Which Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns

In which a solitary figure, pursued with unrelenting vigilance through the shadowed streets of Paris, employs the resourcefulness born of numerous past perils to effect a daring nocturnal escape. With a child hidden close and the approach of soldiers heavy on the air, he ingeniously summons the tools of the night to surmount seemingly insurmountable barriers and vanish like a phantom beneath the watchful eyes of his foes.