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Updated: May 22, 2025
Farther on, a group of older men, squatting on the ground, are busy making tents, and some women the same Megaeras who daily shriek round the guillotine are plying their needles and scissors for the purpose of making clothes for the soldiers. The soldiers are the entire able-bodied male population of France. "The people of France in arms against tyranny!"
Madame Thenardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which has caused this style of woman to be named megaeras. On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on the doll belonging to "these young ladies."
She would not speak of God's finger again: it was Fate pagan, devilish Fate! the weird, shrivelled women who sit and spin their interminable thread. They had decreed; and Juliette, unable to fight, blind and broken by the conflict, had succumbed to the Megaeras and their relentless wheel. At length silence and loneliness became unendurable. She called Petronelle, and ordered her to pack her boxes.
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