"Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following him with her eyes. [...] “Twenty-three francs!” cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was mingled with some hesitation. Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. “Peuh!” he exclaimed. It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France’s bill at the Congress of Vienna."
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Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862), as translated by Isabel F. Hapgood (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1887), Bk. III, Ch. 9
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