fantine

Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn her from the man.

Fantine alone refused to swing. "I don't like to have people put on airs like that, " muttered Favourite, with a good deal of acrimony.

All at once she ceased speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine had become terrible.

"Jesus! " said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine? "

It began to be said in an undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and that "she had ways about her. "

In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She seemed to be endeavoring to recall something.

There was no one in the house but the two nuns, Sister Perpetue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body of Fantine.

All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. Madeleine turn round.

It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow of her bones two months previously.

Fantine, Dahlia, Zephine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly a year to give them a surprise.

Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was pained to feel that perspiration .

So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost.

Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the staircase.

Such was the condition of the country when Fantine returned thither.

Fantine's hand was hanging over the side of the bed.

On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see Fantine according to his wont.

Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled her increased.

We will confine ourselves to saying that the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love.

Fantine fell back on her pillow.

It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thenardier recognized it.

Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise-- had risen. He said to Fantine in the gentlest and calmest of voices

It was this little girl whom Fantine heard singing.

Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over fault.

"Good God! " he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine? "

"I got them, " replied Fantine.

Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned.

Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow.

Only he remained an hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight.

He had released Fantine's hand.

This is what Fantine was singing: -- "Lovely things we will buy As we stroll the faubourgs through. "

But at that moment Fantine was joyous.

As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner entered. He held in his hand something which resembled a letter.

Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night.

Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray of warmth and joy.

He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar

Fantine, by appearing thus abruptly in his revery , produced the effect of an unexpected ray of light;

He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign it