Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called the beauté du diable of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the playfulness of the kitten, and all this grace ends, with the bourgeois, on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws.
Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables," Volume 3, Book 4, Chapter 1: "A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic"




















