Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

XIV Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras’ Mistress Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles which is called grapeshot passed overhead with its terrible sound he assailed it with a burst of irony. “You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, you are wasting your row. That’s not thunder, it’s a cough.” And the bystanders laughed. Courfeyrac and Bossuet, wh…