Marius sees Cosette sitting and chatting with Valjean on a bench on a street in Paris.
He is a handsome young man of 20 or so, and Hugo describes her as "sweet fifteen."
There is a moment when girls bloom in a twinkling, and become roses all at once.
Yesterday we left them children, today we find them disturbing."
A glimmer of Nabokov, perhaps.
Though at fifteen she is a shade too old to qualify as one of Humbert Humbert's nymphettes.
Marius falls in love with her, just from seeing her.
Reading Les Miserables.
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