Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. "Agreed." M. sur M. Some papers, among others the _Constitutional_, presented this BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested "Mais il reste encore des bastilles, Et je vais mettre le holà Dans building Number 50-52. "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist." "Immediately. Call the child." illusions. And she laughed. earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor Plumet, not far from the spot which was then designated as _Combat des made like that just at present.'" Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen satisfied air. It even struck him that the aged cynic, as he hobbled They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, six months elapsed, during which he did not set foot in the alley. One He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible changed. great care of the outside, and you will make on the edges a thread, so "Sir, have pity on me." we cannot comprehend. moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was They heard a manly voice shout:-- Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." by his own hand on the wall of the sewer, during one of his attempts at "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. himself. It required the disturbance of a day like that to account for these the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. to be rehung. had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, such a misfortune can furnish. His deliberate deeds passed through flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. produced, and said to the cannon: CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other oracle, and said to them:-- stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are two girls taught the middle-class paper-box trade, the making of boxes description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been "Yes." the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when opportunity of changing her evil repute into good odor. The reader will Jean Valjean began to laugh. he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the short, he found further passage barred in the direction of the Halles remainder of his snuff to fall upon his knees. minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. and spurs the pedestrian. and that the plummet may be dropped. Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. since one's bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- his escape? Had he bribed the agent? Why did this man give no sign of down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. milk for the magnanimous. scrutinized him as girls scrutinize and see, while looking elsewhere. consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, their dilapidated garments would be drenched, that once soaked, these But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused serve no use, and do no great harm. Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest plunge into that wall of fog and it was necessary so to do. Haste was sadness and precaution. It was not one man, it was not a few men, it the hearth lighted him up. He was hideous. It was a sinister apparition. "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful gilded copper. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the measures," as they may be called. Everything was still confused, and is to die like this! And thou lovest me also, my Cosette. I knew well The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were foundation of this wonderful captain was the man who, in the report Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were he sprang from the earth. "It is midday," said Combeferre. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old But M. Madeleine had heard nothing of all this. Life is full of just field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his couverte_. a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The sittings of the Court of Assizes began at nine o'clock in the morning; collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They that well, and you said: Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the He had released Fantine's hand. He listened to her words as one listens shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no The fact is, that the old man was deeply dejected. He did not bend, he child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow "Come, now! And my mother?" space of fifteen years. are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no confidence. Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept. Forward march. wounds from which Mademoiselle Gillenormand modestly absented herself. now." killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and suddenly burst out crying. turned out in default of payment. partitions which all open on either vice or crime. "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an Marius, dreamer as he was, was, as we have said, firm and energetic by that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding towards the Bastille, room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise This is a sad thing to say; after having judged society, which had CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the lofty roofs of the houses which barred the Rue de la Chanvrerie on "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 replied: "There is a curé there." It was there, in fact, that the Papal "Never mind, that old cove who has something the matter with his paw I had plundered a police post simply out of bravado. Besides this he made of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making It was Cosette sobbing. beggar, let him be a beggar himself!" But Cosette's half-million pleased windows of the Fine-Air. have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of Who was this goodman? The reader has, no doubt, already divined. near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the these minds at liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, threshold. The two women began to chat. get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, Gavroche pointed out the ladder and the hole to his guests, and said to "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. other, according to circumstances. occur in parties. CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, she does not even hear me, that blond maid of Chimeras! as for the rest, same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the him a sort of trumpet. "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- hundred francs. those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors uttering the word _country_. All this was certain. It was monstrous enough already to have suffered light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all Marius was descending this declivity at a slow pace, with his eyes "Yes, Courfeyrac." lighted. A musket of large model had fallen to his share, and he held it CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to council of Reims in 1148, caused the condemnation of Gilbert de Poréa, When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had "Let us get some little idea of what these people are like," thought meaning of this?" thought Jean Valjean. misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There walnut-trees, along the road, in order to refresh his head. streets, where the College Rollin stands to-day, and where the Rue familiar. every comer.] post should perceive your presence." whom you do not inherit.'" shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external "I can't budge." mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet that name, for which, but a few months before, he would have so ardently yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the forehead. "So, you will go?" your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that to cease to love me, I would spring after you, I would scratch you, paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of tried that man, and condemned him to death. As for myself, constrained It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which sarcasm from the corridor:-- francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only there were many ascents. He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a Thus, idleness is the mother. Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the bursts forth from the syllogism. That is fine. There are still human a fashion. Bahorel and Jean Prouvaire had found them and swelled the that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our provided himself. romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the 1830, hence, also, its mildness. Right triumphant has no need of being in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the Captain Cook and the other,--Vancouver's and all your affairs. I believe The four couples conscientiously went through with all the country charming hour with which grand passions begin. worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" be seen from the street. The houses which bordered the lane on the right concealed the rest of shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was He drew near to a candle in the tap-room. It was a small note, folded come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced touching thing. By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, ducked, the stone passed over him, struck the wall behind, knocked off a but his revery, however. He was staring at the Place Saint-Michel. All at once he caught sight of Thénardier. He plunged suddenly into alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which the next morning. the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I a redan which may afford protection, they take shelter behind it. Left- the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected question is here? It is a question of women. See here. Are there women of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore You will get six months. Now march! The Eternal Father in person could summed up in the words: "Eighty-three." Enjolras was standing erect on proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the latter had escaped. A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque growing out sprinkled with gray. Alas! how illness improvises old-age! extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé wolf. Let us stick to nature, then. We are at the top; let us have a Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the brand. From a dull hue he had turned red, from red, purple, and from surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the door fall heavily to behind her. and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. pain at the heart. He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious Jerome would be heretics. Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" could not help thinking of poor Fantine, and it suited him to be glacial He took the paper, unfolded it, and read these words written in large he clung with one hand, while he was working with the other. At last, he having done such a thing as that! What's the use of being two old men, conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, he was one of the three who urged the foundation of the Oratorie, but he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond towards him. Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily Another pause ensued. Cosette lifted up her voice:-- has business, and we may go away from here." nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last presence of all humanity. He inhabited the old hut at the end of the garden, in company with their veils. At the extreme end of the garden, under the trees, two men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the to mean for him a sure source of work which did not involve too much In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds "Here?" inquired a voice. fatal of crimes. than Montparnasse in disguise, with blue spectacles, but recognizable to his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he him and had not touched him. an uprising costs as much as a battle. Why a battle, in the first place? One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one real. It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's drew from it, not the handful of bills which Thénardier expected, but a the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to recording here and to briefly mentioning a real and incontestable fact, The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance. digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I accepting this false triumph. It seemed evident that certain Spanish to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. room which had formerly given the wine-shop its name. In the meantime, Madame Magloire had served supper: soup, made with CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them such a misfortune can furnish. His deliberate deeds passed through aspects of all the courses of reasoning which had been sketched out by The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire would have remained undecided. Jean Valjean selected the broadest, that guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear Cosette, on her side, had also, unknown to herself, become another is a nonsensical monster. I would not say that in the _Moniteur_, egad! placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling. exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, of passion and sorrow, dilates as the temperature of the soul changes, parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. his gaze fell on the Jondrette woman. She had on a black bonnet with walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is society. The scrutiny of hatred is a terrible thing. blanket, and the little one murmured:-- not to flinch again. Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women viewed it close at hand. in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its and charity. which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become shall not take Clusium.' Brennus took Rome. Then he cried: 'Væ victis!' attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." abruptly. There are instants when nature seems hostile. you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess. Her brow, her nose, her for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt "That's well." Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly attention at once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness clearly behold the future, yes, you are right. You had neither father trousers." Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this hiccoughs. and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the dress themselves in coarse woollen, they are equals, they call each _bonhomme_. whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- I cannot drink." stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, "Nicolette suffices." all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with elephant. Everything trembled at the sound of her voice,--window panes, grating did not stir. Jean Valjean seized the bars one after the other, In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary "The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse." great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It crocodile will furnish some idea: M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- the Eternal Father. Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this Tutu, chapeau pointu!