a crafty and furtive disposition. Smaller than Enjolras, his agility was most comical and surprising. His substitutes for the jokes and slang of the Paris gamin were capers, somersaults, and ludicrous motions. We are forced to confess that, notwithstanding these attractive qualities, Gavroche never lost an opportunity of stealing out of the parlor in order to join in the street or courtyard with vagabond cats,—
"Of any sort of birth, and blood unknown to fame,"
in parties of the most unrefined sort, quite
forgetting his dignity as a cat from Havana:
son of the illustrious Don Pierrot
de Navarre, grandee of Spain of the first
rank, and of the Marquise Seraphita, whose
manners were so lofty and disdainful.
Sometimes by way of a treat he would
conduct to his porridge-plate some comrade
emaciated by famine and all skin-and-bone,
whom he had picked up during
