hining brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits ideas to go and come in the brain.
When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats on and all ready to go out.
Courfeyrac said to him:--
"Are you coming to General Lamarque''s funeral?"
It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese.
He went out some time after them.
He put in his pocket the pistols which Javert had given him at the time of the adventure on the 3d of February, and which had remained in his hands.
These pistols were still loaded.
It would be difficult to say what vague thought he had in his mind when he took them with him.
All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a penny roll at a baker''s, put it in his pocket and forgot it. It appears that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing through one of those moments.
He no longer hoped for anything; this step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with feverish impatience, he had but one idea clearly before his mind;--this was, that at nine o''clock he should see Cosette.
This last happiness now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom.