Les Miserables

him stop under the trees of the
boulevard Gassendi, and drink at the fountain which is at the end of
the promenade. He must have been very thirsty, for some children who
followed him, saw him stop not two hundred steps further on and
drink again at the fountain in the market-place.
{FANTINE|BOOK_2ND|I ^paragraph 5}
When he reached the corner of the Rue Poichevert he turned to the
left and went towards the mayor's office. He went in, and a quarter of
an hour afterwards he came out.
The man raised his cap humbly and saluted a gendarme who was
seated near the door, upon the stone bench which General Drouot
mounted on the fourth of March, to read to the terrified inhabitants
of D__ the proclamation of the Golfe Juan.
Without returning his salutation, the gendarme looked at him
attentively, watched him for some distance, and then went into the
city hall.
There was then in D__, a good inn called La Croix de Colbas; its
host was named Jacquin Labarre, a man held in some consideration in
the town on account of his relationship with another Labarre, who kept
an inn at Grenoble called Trois Dauphins, and who had served in
the Guides. At the time of the landing of the emperor there had been
much noise in the country about this inn of the Trois Dauphins. It
was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a wagoner, had made
frequent journeys thither in the month of January, and that he had
distributed crosses of honour to the soldiers, and handfuls of
Napoleons to the country-folks. The truth is, that the emperor when he
entered Grenoble, refused to take up his quarters at the prefecture,
saying to the monsieur, after thanking him, "I am going to the
house of a brave man, with whom I am acquainted," and he went to
the Trois Dauphins. This glory of Labarre of the Trois Dauphins
was reflected twenty-five miles to Labarre of the Croix de Colbas.
It was a common saying in the town: "He is the cousin of the Grenoble
man!"
The traveller turned his steps towards this inn, which was the
best in the place, and went at once into the kitchen, which opened out
of the street. All the ranges were fuming, and a great fire was
burning briskly in the chimney-place. Mine host, who was at the same
time head cook, was going from the fire-place to the saucepans, very
busy superintending an excellent dinner for some wagoners who were
laughing and talking noisily in the next room. Whoever has travelled
knows that nobody lives better than wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by
white partridges and goose, was turning on a long spit before the
fire; upon the ranges were cooking two large carps from Lake Lauzet,
and a trout from Lake Alloz.
{FANTINE|BOOK_2ND|I ^paragraph 10}
The host, hearing the door open, and a new-comer enter, said,
without raising his eyes from his ranges-
"What will monsieur have?"