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Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable,' whereas to be 'venerable,' a w...more

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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

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Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing; but here it is the city singing. Liste...more

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He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face that society from which he was...more