BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR

　　He had said these things in a loud, rapid, hoarse voice, with a sort of irritated and savage ingenuousness.

　　"I prefer to overthrow them rather than to drive them back."

　　"A merry humor was at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin Constant.

　　Thanks to the thousands upon thousands of cartloads of earth employed in the hillock one hundred and fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and difficult of approach.

　　"The battle was lost."

　　In face of this mean and mighty victory, in face of this victory which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect.

　　Now it was the Thenardier who appeared to her, with her hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do?

　　The Thenardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the new-comer with her eyes.

A few years ago, there were still to be seen, pasted in the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, possessed the property of frightening away robbers:--

　　It is a business which can be performed at night. Let us begin, then, by going for a drink."

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