Les Misérables (novel)/Source/Volume 3/Book 8/Chapter 4: Difference between revisions

 

 

A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a petticoat upon that chilled and shivering nakedness. Her girdle was a string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those to shudder whom they do not cause to weep.

And she began to hum these words to a gay air:—

 

Pas de fricot. I have no food.

J’ai froid, ma mère. I am cold, mother.

Lolotte! Shiver,

Sanglote, Sob,

She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:—

 

Then she departed.

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