Joy in the depths!
Live, O creation!
The world is a great diamond.
I am happy.
The birds are astonishing.What a festival everywhere!
The nightingale is a gratuitous Elleviou.Summer, I salute thee!
O Luxembourg!
O Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allee de l'Observatoire! O pensive infantry soldiers!O all those charming nurses who, while they guard the children, amuse themselves!
The pampas of America would please me if I had not the arcades of the Odeon.
My soul flits away into the virgin forests and to the savannas.
All is beautiful.
The flies buzz in the sun.The sun has sneezed out the humming bird.
Embrace me, Fantine!"
He made a mistake and embraced Favourite.
BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817
CHAPTER VIII
THE DEATH OF A HORSE
"The dinners are better at Edon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed Zephine.