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CHAPTER X

DAWN

At that moment, Cosette awoke.
Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long
sash-window, facing the East on the back court-yard of the
house.
Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She
had not been there on the preceding evening, and she had
already retired to her chamber when Toussaint had said:
‘It appears that there is a row.’
Cosette had slept only a few hours, but soundly. She had
had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that
her little bed was very white. Some one, who was Marius,
had appeared to her in the light. She awoke with the sun in
her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the effect of being
a continuation of her dream. Her first thought on emerg-
ing from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself
thoroughly reassured. Like Jean Valjean, she had, a few
hours previously, passed through that reaction of the soul
which absolutely will not hear of unhappiness. She began
to cherish hope, with all her might, without knowing why.
Then she felt a pang at her heart. It was three days since

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