Excerpt from Les Misérables, Vol. 3: Marius
This little being is joyous; he does not eat every day, and he goes to the theatre every night if he thinks proper. He has no Shirt on his body, no Shoes on his feet, and no covering on his head; he is like the flies, which have none of those things. He is from seven to thirteen years of age, lives in gangs, rambles about the streets, lodges in the open air, wears an old pair of his father's trousers, which descend lower than his heels, an old hat belonging to some other father, which comes below his ears, and one yellow list brace. He runs, watches, begs.
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Couple these two ideas, the one which is all furnace, the other all dawn; bring the two sparks, Paris and childhood, into collision, and a little being is produced, a homuncio, as Plautus would say. This little being is joyous ;he does not eat every day, and he goes to the theatre every night if he thinks proper. He has no shirt on his body, no shoes on his feet, and no covering on his head; he is like the flies, which have none of those things. He is from seven to thirteen years of age, lives gregariously, lodges in the open air, wears an old pair of his fathers trousers, which descend lower than his heels, an old hat belonging to some other father, which comes below his ears, and one yellow list brace. He runs, watches, begs, kills time, colors pipes, swears like a fiend, haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, is intimate with prostitutes, talks slang, sings filthy songs, and has nothing bad in his heart; for he has in his soul a pearl, Innocence ;and pearls are not dissolved by mud. So long as the man is a child, God desires that he should be innocent. If we were to ask the enormous city, What is this creature? it would reply, it is my little one.
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