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— William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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Chapter Viii—madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs On Morality

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When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The taste for work had really returned to her. She bought a looking-glass, took pleasure in surveying in it her youth, her beautiful hair, her fine teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and furnished on credit on the strength of her future work—a lingering trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little girl.

At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. Asshe only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through apublic letter-writer.
She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in anundertone, in the women’s workroom, that Fantine “wrote letters” andthat “she had ways about her.”

Chapter Viii—madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs On Morality

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