La noia anava i venia per la mansarda amb una audàcia d'espectre. S'agitava sense preocupar-se de la seva nuesa. A estones, la camisa badada i estripada li queia gairebé fins la cintura. Movia les cadires, remenava estris d'afaitar sobre la calaixera, palpava la roba de Marius, tafanejava pels racons. –Carai –va fer–, té un mirall! I, com si hagués estat sola, taral·lejava fragments de vodevil, refranys entremaliats, que la seva veu gutural i ronca feia tètrics. Per sota l'atreviment traspuava una mena d'actitud forçada, inquieta i humiliada. El desvergonyiment és una vergonya.
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).
This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.