Victor Hugo

“ The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the window, and shouted to her in a thundering voice:--
"Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? Break a pane of glass!" ”

“ I don't know anything more irritating than shoes that squelch, and go ghi, ghi, ghi, the whole time. I prefer to go barefoot."
"You are right," said her father, in a sweet tone which contrasted with the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter churches, for poor people must have shoes to do that. One cannot go barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. ”