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Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one there.
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One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the afternoon, but it was the 2d of February, that ancient Candlemas day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks’ cold spell, inspired Mathieu Laensberg with these two lines, which have with justice remained classic:—
 
<poem>Qu’il luise ou qu’il luiserne,
L’ours rentre dans en sa caverne.26</poem>
<ref><poem>Whether the sun shines brightly or dim,
The bear returns to his cave.</poem></ref>
 
Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, infirmities of ideal passions!
 
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