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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 M at a time
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so many adventures and
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mountains we can climb
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to give word for word, line by
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line, one bite at a time.
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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
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Hugo chapter
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four entrance on the scene of a
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doll the line of
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open air booths starting at the church
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extended, as the reader will remember,
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as far as the hostelry of the St. Ardiers.
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These booths were all illuminated
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because the citizens would soon pass on their way to the
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midnight mass with candles burning in paper
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funnels, which, as the
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schoolmaster then seated at the table at the thenardiers
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observed, produced a magical effect.
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In compensation, not a star was visible in the
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sky. The last of these
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stalls established precisely opposite
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the Thane 30 eights door was a toy shop, all
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glittering with tinsel, glass and magnificent
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objects of tin. In the first
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row and far forwards, the merchant had placed on a
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background of white napkins an immense
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doll nearly 2ft high, who was
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dressed in a robe of pink crepe with gold wheat
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ears on her head, which had real hair and
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enamel eyes. All that
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day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all
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passersby under ten years of age without
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a mother, being found in Montfermeil sufficiently
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rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her
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child. Ebeneen and Azama had
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passed hours in contemplating it, and Cosette
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herself had ventured to cast a glance at it on the
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sly. It is true. At the
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moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand,
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melancholy and overcome as she was,
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she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that wonderful
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doll, towards the lady,
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as, she called it. The poor child
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paused in amazement. She had not
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yet beheld that doll close to
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the whole shop, seemed a palace to her. The doll
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was not a doll. It was a vision. It
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was joy, splendor, riches,
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happiness which appeared in a sort of
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chimerical halo to that unhappy little being
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so profoundly engulfed in gloomy and
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chilly misery. With the
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sad and innocent sagacity of childhood,
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Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from that
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dollar. she said to herself, that one
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must be a queen, or at least a
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princess, to have a thing like that.
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She gazed at that beautiful pink dress,
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that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought
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how happy that doll must be.
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She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall.
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The more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. she thought
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she was gazing at paradise. There were
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other dolls behind the large one, which seemed to her to
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be fairies. And Genii,
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the merchant who was pacing back and forth
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in front of his shop, produced on her
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somewhat the effect of being the eternal father
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in this adoration. She forgot everything,
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even the errand with which she was charged.
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All at once, the thenardiers coarse voice recalled her to
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reality. what?
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>> Brie Carlisle: You silly jade.
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>> Brie Carlisle: You have not gone. Wait. Ill give it to you.
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I want to know what youre doing there. Get along, you little
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monster. Thenardier had cast
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a glance into the street and had caught sight of
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Cosette in her ecstasy. Cosette
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fled, dragging her pale and taking the longest
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strides of which she was capable.
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Thank you for joining Byte at a time books today while
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we wrote a bite of one of your favorite classics.
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Again. my name is Bree carlisle, and I
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hope you come back tomorrow for the next bite
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of le Miserable.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Dont forget to sign up for our
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>> Speaker D: take a look and let's
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see what we can find.
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>> Speaker A: Take it chapter by chapter.
