650 Les Miserables
CHAPTER III
MEN MUST HAVE
WINE, AND HORSES
MUST HAVE WATER
Four new travellers had arrived.
Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only
eight years old, she had already suffered so much that she
reflected with the lugubrious air of an old woman. Her eye
was black in consequence of a blow from Madame Thenar-
dier’s fist, which caused the latter to remark from time to
time, ‘How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!’
Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that
the pitchers and caraffes in the chambers of the travellers
who had arrived must have been filled and that there was no
more water in the cistern.
She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Th-
enardier establishment drank much water. Thirsty people
were never lacking there; but their thirst was of the sort
which applies to the jug rather than to the pitcher. Any one
who had asked for a glass of water among all those glasses