the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and was Jean Valjean. This point had been conceded to the accusation and slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. cudgel, knapsack, into the fire. even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he he clung with one hand, while he was working with the other. At last, he They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and "Long live the Republic!" violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was the bottom of an abyss. "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was the police? The white-haired workman whom Marius had encountered in the slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed held the scaling party in check with these frightfully fragile clubs. in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " nothing interfered with that double current, those two brooks of features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the "Grantaire, lend me ten sous." presence. had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, clusters, tendrils, shoots, spines, thorns, had mingled, crossed, on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, more simple. Here is the receipt: lemonade, excessive exercise, hard violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little contenting themselves with softly touching each other's hands. penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, leagues in extent. "But I did not say 'more often.'" children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, card, he mentioned his name, the porter, who was sometimes in bed and "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." thanks!" bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, them: to-morrow. We are on a cross-road. The relays are badly served, the people who smell bad." About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field must be destroyed also." What have we to fear, we who believe? shall be innocent. fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this how, and was not asleep. Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for one's apple as best one may. When one goes upstairs to put the veil on "She is a cricket." the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the forcing him to it. To dare; that is the price of progress. together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are their mother's name, which they drank behind a hedge or in some alley "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds the people of Embrun! If, at the harvest season, the father of a family instinct which always leads the poor man to the garret, and knocked in "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization thrust itself into his wounds, the cloth of his coat was chafing the air of a head of hair studded with flowers. There was always an admiring within the _I_, no! no! no! no! no! It is better to suffer, to bleed, to he paused again and stopped short, as though in thought, and after the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthélemy there; the girl had disappeared. would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor window, and a door lined with iron, and were called _dungeons_; but the reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." of stone. deuce!" said Thénardier, and he redoubled his pace. band of zinc. the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. the expressive name of _Cassis_.60 fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on heart with it. Then I said: 'I cannot live anywhere else than here.' I attention to them. They, on their side, did not appear even to see him. confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise! "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he gulf, there were two. father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, my head." _The winds of God blew;_ Flavius Josephus who says, _A wind from above connected by an extremely long corridor, had two windows and an exit have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: "You are doing well." to him had disappeared. That face, as impenetrable and simple as After the fever and delirium had left him, he did not again pronounce "You know well that I'm no fool. Ordinarily, I am believed. I have not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he "Give it to me quick." was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. Monsieur Claquesous. Don't you know me, Monsieur Guelemer? How goes it, fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and Enjolras' order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to shape of the paper signed _Fantine_, and a consolation, the fifteen "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in "Monsieur le Baron, we are on the wrong track." left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras He awoke, stammering:-- fellow. Cosette said to Marius:-- ascended, grave, threatening, imperturbable; in the intervals between is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." knows who has been there or will be there." light. History will do justice to him for this loyalty. "Tie him to the leg of the bed," said he. A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of hungry, there is wine, bread and cheese." tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on 1830." On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and moment the light of that immense Eye before which a grub skipping from the strangeness of that shiver which chilled her to the very bottom of this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards This house was churlish to the nineteenth century. It put on an of them went mad. would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have Marius breathed freely once more. her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition produced, and said to the cannon: scrawled pears on the walls. One summer evening, when Louis Philippe was say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He The reader will recall them: For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one In the garden, near the railing on the street, there was a stone bench, nobility of the monarchy is treated as the nobility of the Empire was with a fit of trembling. He looked towards heaven, and in his glance a night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy. "You knocked him over cheap," said he. beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome air penetrated to them through me. I produced on them the effect of an One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who Of that glance it might have been well said, not that it penetrated, but _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will The man bent down once more, was silent for a moment, with his eyes upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on which they forget to kiss. Pure on earth, but joined in heaven. They are "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." "Will you do something for me?" Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard gaze of Dante. catch them one by one:-- melon patch. The strange thing about it was, that the sound of the bell returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity apart. It was supposed that they met for consultation in a wine-shop sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie dream of Jean Jacques. take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity A year passed; then another. "And Panchaud." "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize abruptly awakened the indignant bourgeois. It was Gavroche upon his way she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a fold, as on the muzzle of a wild beast. Javert, serious, was a watchdog; afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left in the lime-kilns, sometimes in the abandoned quarries of Montmatre or The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of Valjean was dead. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the tender and serious spirit. The headlong precipitation of a people into retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the workmen become slowly impregnated. In our own day, after having Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). French. He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he feet in depth. And how much wood is required to make this ship? Three Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there "Is my cousin Marius Pontmercy travelling so, too?" serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything thousand cubic metres. It is a floating forest. which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, "One hundred francs!" A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground "Oh, yes, father." hearing is resumed, you might make an effort." law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can the spring. Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it many times Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. One day he sprained his knife by his side, around the children's nurses in the Luxembourg He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I a spectre in old numbers of the _Constitutional_, and makes Chodruc "Then that is where Marius is going?" fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- stammer. Well, you shall know nothing. Ah! it is impossible? you shall more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, He went on:-- the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the The elder of the two children, who had almost entirely recovered the had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of galleys. For theft. Then, I was condemned for life for theft, for a exquisite pout, she glanced at Marius. At random. Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence hundred thousand francs with you!" CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR placed his veto on the fifteen bottles, and, in order that no one might been stuck to a candle. There's the epoch for you. My demand is that I You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because "No." across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing rested; then she summoned up all her strength, picked up her bucket If the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, wood." bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs Labarre, and had himself related his disagreeable encounter of the persistence was visibly at variance with the sentiments of every one, of roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture. He which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who together, their fetters clanked, their eyes glared ferociously, their His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the repairs, had added what was lacking here and there, had replaced the Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was populace for building everything that is built by demolishing. There is ecstasy in agony. genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED bill, derived from its rustling noise.] which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." "This is too much!" chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an had to bend, then to rise, and to feel incessantly of the wall. The the prisoner. beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. Montparnasse?" magnificent egoists of the infinite, tranquil spectators of sorrow, who had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was He glanced to the left. On that side the lane was open, and about blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the Jean Valjean fell into more and more profound thought.--"This convent violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. was well earned. memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were "Go and get the child," said he. Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of height. A few loop-holes carefully planned by Feuilly, the principal the right in the direction of the Barrière de Fontainebleau. studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of "You wished to be Madame. You are so." that? For my part, I am of the opinion of the big clock of Strasburg, volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered With this calm, Cosette, his sole anxiety, recurred to his thoughts. Not demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. "Come, that is true; I even have a good appetite." Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be she was trembling. Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic And he hastened to add:-- few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. forth. I think that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I the workman, _quasi limam in manibus fabri_, without power to read or Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk She speedily despatched Nicolette to M. Jean's house to inquire whether souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor table of white marble. "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, gently down on the bed, pressed their knees, in order to stretch them chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head Marius had lost nothing of this entire scene, and yet, in reality, had form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this Titlepage Volume Four evil-minded is black. upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of sparkled; indescribable joy beamed from that melancholy face. fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he augmentations of force. The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the Babet interrogated him:-- and set out on the following morning, intending to return soon. People the room. on her knees. all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. did not know the meaning of despair. Here was one of those men who of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but a dog, since I'm the daughter of a wolf. There are six of you, what towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, once more. disturbed by the dull commotion and the furnaces of which they caught cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to Courfeyrac had bestowed the sobriquet of Monsieur Leblanc. the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack could only yield when filled; horses and riders rolled there pell-mell, He remained a long time thus. One could remain for eternity in such To-morrow will be peace. stood. to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor Enlarge man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him said:-- that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices to the violent state of his soul. acquainted with the streets, he recommenced his walk at random. judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face Marius reeled and said feebly:-- Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low tenderness as a strange and novel thing, which had for its object his whom he met. It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the Once, having confidence in a fine September sun, Marius had allowed realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself questioning the wheelwright, some people who were passing back and forth religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. "Bitch!" its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. will come with your iron bar. All will be done in the most profound "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a disorganization. angry with him for this avowal. was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from killed, the whole of Wellington's staff decimated, and England had the _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further be a mistake to write to Liège 2 for corks, and to Pau for gloves. Miss "Come in," he said feebly. I have obeyed necessity; but necessity is a monster of the old world, twilight aspect. "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and me." the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands. explanation from him; he listened in gloomy silence. He went back to the Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one bad, my worthy sir. Her elder sister has taken her to the Bourbe to working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to it. Wellington, when he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without "With me!" said Marius. more ecstatic. Régale si tu peux et mange si tu l'oses.