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pected nothing; he talked of her childhood and her youth,
and he became more and more convinced that that convict
had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a
man can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a
glimpse of and had surmised was real. That sinister nettle
had loved and protected that lily.

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