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The day had begun to dawn. Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. The worthy sister had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on account of the dimness which the half-light of dawn spreads over all objects. Suddenly she raised her head and uttered a faint shriek. M. Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. 去书内
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    This passage from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables marks a quiet but critical turning point in Fantine’s story，and it reveals much about the characters of Jean Valjean... The scene opens at dawn, a time that usually brings hope, but here it feels fragile. Fantine has just spent a night “filled with happy visions” after believing Cosette will be returned to her, only to fall asleep exhausted and feverish. Her fever is both physical and emotional—she is worn down by illness, poverty, and the pain of losing her child. The “sleepless and feverish night” shows how her mind is racing with hope and fear, even as her body fails her. Sister Simplice, a kind and steady presence, uses Fantine’s sleep to make a new medicine from chinchona bark, a real treatment for fever in the 19th century. This act shows her deep dedication to caring for Fantine, even in the early light. When M. Madeleine suddenly appears, the tension rises. He enters “silently,” which makes his arrival feel both urgent and secret.

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