Les Misérables (novel)/Source/Volume 1/Book 3/Chapter 7: Difference between revisions

 

In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened.

At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group replied to Tholomyès’ harangue:—

 

Some money to an agent gave,

That master good Clermont-Tonnerre

Made pope, because no priest was he;

And then their agent, whose wrath burned,

This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès’ improvisation; he emptied his glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:—

 

He made a mistake and embraced Favourite.

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