...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of lifeβs morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved? β¨ Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). Les misΓ©rables, Dutton Adult
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