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Cosette's whole person was näivete, innocence, transparency, whiteness, honesty, radiance. One could say of Cosette that she was pellucid. She gave anyone who saw her a sensation of April and of dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of auroral light in womanly form.

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droll: [adj.] Amusingly odd or whimsically comical ( Read more... )