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>> Speaker A: Take a look, in the book and let's see
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Take it chapter by chapter. One
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fight at a time
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so many adventures and mountains
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we can climb
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to give word for word, line by
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>> Brie Carlisle: Welcome to bite at a time books where we read you your
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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be
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continuing.
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Les Miserable by Victor Hugo
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chapter eleven christus nost
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libravit. What is
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this history of Fantine? It is
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society purchasing a slave.
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From whom? From misery,
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from hunger, cold, isolation,
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destitution, a dolorous bargain,
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a soul for a morsel of bread.
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Misery offers society
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accepts the sacred law of Jesus
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Christ, governs our civilization, but it does
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not as yet permeate it.
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It is said that slavery has disappeared from european
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civilization. This is a
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mistake. It still exists, but it
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weighs only upon the woman, and it is called
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prostitution. It weighs upon the
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woman, that is to say, upon grace,
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weakness, beauty. maternity. It
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is not one of the least of mans disgraces.
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At the point in this melancholy drama which we have
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now reached, nothing is left to fantine of that which
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she had formerly been. She has become a
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marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches
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her feels cold. She passes.
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She endures you. She ignores you. She is
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a severe and dishonored figure. life in the social
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order have said their last word for her.
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All has happened to her that will happen to her.
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She has felt everything, borne
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everything, experienced everything,
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suffered everything, lost everything, mourned
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everything. She has
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resigned with that
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resignation which resembles indifference as
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death resembles sleep. She no longer avoids
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anything. Let all the clouds fall upon
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her and all the oceans sleep over
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her. What matters it to her?
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She has a sponge that is soaked. At
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least she believes it to be so. But it is an
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error to imagine that fate can be exhausted and that
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one has reached the bottom of anything whatever.
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Alas, what are all these fates driven on
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Pell Mell? Whither are they going? Why are they
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thus? He who knows that sees
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the whole of the shadow. He is
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alone. His name is
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God. Thank you for joining Byte at a
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time books today while we read a bite of one of your
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favorite classics. Again, my name is
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Brie Carlisle and I hope you come back tomorrow
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for the next bite of Le
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Miserable.
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>> Brie Carlisle: don't forget to sign up for our newsletter@biteoutimebooks.com
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as well.
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>> Speaker D: Take a look at a book and let's
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see what we can find.
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Take it chapter by m. Chapter
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one at a time.
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The mountains we can
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climb.
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>> Speaker A: Take your.
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>> Speaker D: Words go word, line m by line.
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>> Speaker A: One bite at a time.
