Part 2 Book 2 Chapter 1 Number 24,601 becomes Number 9,430

Jean Valjean had been recaptured.

The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing¹ two paragraphs published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising events which had taken place at M. sur M.

These articles are rather summary. It must be remembered, that at that epoch² the Gazette des Tribunaux was not yet in existence.

We borrow the first from the Drapeau Blanc. It bears the date of July 25, 1823.

An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the new methods, resuscitated³ some years ago an ancient local industry, the manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune in the business, and that of the arrondissement as well, we will admit. He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had broken his ban, condemned⁴ in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean has been recommitted to prison. It appears that previous to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged⁶ there, and which he had, moreover, and by perfectly⁷ legitimate⁸ means, acquired in his business. No one has been able to discover where Jean Valjean has concealed⁹ this money since his return to prison at Toulon.

The second article, which enters a little more into detail, is an extract from the Journal de Paris, of the same date. A former convict, who had been liberated¹⁰, named Jean Valjean, has just appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances calculated to attract attention. This wretch¹¹ had succeeded in escaping the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable¹² zeal¹³ of the public prosecutor¹⁴. He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this interval¹⁵ of three or four days of liberty, to withdraw a considerable sum deposited by him with one of our leading bankers. This sum has been estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment¹⁶ is to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal¹⁷ verse,

". . . Arrive from Savoy every year, And who, with gentle hands, do clear Those long canals choked up with soot¹⁸."

This bandit refused to defend himself. It was proved by the skilful¹⁹ and eloquent²⁰ representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence. This criminal refused to lodge⁵ an appeal. The king, in his inexhaustible clemency²², has deigned²³ to commute²⁴ his penalty to that of penal²¹ servitude for life. Jean Valjean was immediately taken to the prison at Toulon.

The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at M. sur M. Some papers, among others the Constitutional, presented this commutation as a triumph of the priestly party.

Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys²⁵. He was called 9,430.

However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be obliged to recur²⁶ to the subject, the prosperity of M. sur M. Vanished with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever and hesitation²⁷ was realized; lacking him, there actually was a soul lacking. After this fall, there took place at M. Sur M. that egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished²⁸ every day, obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted²⁹ only once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants³⁰ are crowned kings; superintendents³¹ improvise³² manufacturers out of themselves. Envious³³ rivalries³⁴ arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered³⁵. Some of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; for lucre³⁶ instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned³⁷ over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of organization, bitterness to cordiality, hatred³⁸ of one another to the benevolence³⁹ of the founder⁴⁰ towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine had set were tangled⁴¹ and broken, the methods were adulterated, the products were debased, confidence was killed; the market diminished, for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, bankruptcy⁴² arrived. And then there was nothing more for the poor. All had vanished.

The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. Less than four years after the judgment⁴³ of the Court of Assizes establishing the identity of Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine, for the benefit of the galleys, the cost of collecting taxes had doubled in the arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villele called attention to the fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827.

冉阿让又被捕了。

那些惨痛的经过，我们不打算一一细谈，大家想能见谅。我们只把当时滨海蒙特勒伊那一惊人事件发生几个月后报纸所刊载的两则小新闻转录下来。

那两节记载相当简略。我们记得，当时还没有地方法院公报。

第一节是从一八二三年七月二十五日的《白旗报》上录下来的：

加来海峡省①某县发生了一件稀有的事。有个来自他省名叫马德兰先生的人，在最近几年内，曾采用一种新方法，振兴了当地的一种旧工业，即烧料细工业。他成了当地的巨富，并且，应当说明，该县也因以致富。为了报答他的劳绩，大家举荐他当市长。不意警厅发现该马德兰先生者，原名冉阿让，系一苦役犯，一七九六年因盗案入狱，服刑期满，竟又违禁私迁。冉阿让现已重行入狱。据说他在被捕之先，曾从拉菲特银行提取存款五十万，那笔款子，一般人认为是他在商业中获得的非常合法的利润。冉阿让既已回到土伦监狱，那笔款子藏在什么地方，也就无人知晓了。

①加来海峡省（PasdeCalais），滨海蒙特勒伊所在之省，在法国北部。　

第二节，比较详细，是从同一天的《巴黎日报》摘录下来的。

有个刑满释放的苦役犯名冉阿让者，最近在瓦尔省①高等法院受审，案情颇堪注意。该暴徒曾蒙蔽警察，改名换姓，并窃居我国北部某小城市长之职。他在该城经营一种商业，规模相当可观。由于公安人员的高度服务热忱，终于揭发真相，逮捕归案。他的姘妇是个公娼，已在他被捕时惊恐丧命。该犯膂力过人，曾越狱潜逃，越狱后三四日，又被警方捕获，并且是在巴黎，当时他正待走上一辆行驶在首都和孟费郿村（塞纳·瓦兹省）之间的小车。据说他曾利用那三四天的自由，从某大银行提取了大宗存款。据估计，该款达六七十万法郎。公诉状指出他已将该款藏在某处，除他之外无人知晓，因而没有被发现。总之该冉阿让已在瓦尔省高等法院受审，他被控曾手持凶器，约八年前在大路上抢劫过一个正如费尔内元老在他那流芳千古的诗句中所提及的那种诚实孩子：

…………

岁岁都从萨瓦②来，

妙手轻轻频拂拭，

善为长突去煤炱。

①瓦尔省（Var），土伦所在之省，在法国南部。

②萨瓦（Savoie），省名，靠意大利，该地的孩子多以通烟囱为业。　

那匪徒放弃了申诉机会。经司法诸公一番崇论雄辩之后，他那盗案已被定为累犯罪，并经指出冉阿让系南方某一匪帮的成员。因而罪证一经宣布，该冉阿让即被判处死刑。该犯拒绝上诉。国王无边宽大，恩准减为终身苦役。冉阿让立即被押赴土伦监狱。

我们没有忘记，冉阿让当初在滨海蒙特勒伊一贯遵守教规。因而有几种报纸，例如《立宪主义者报》便认为那次减刑应当归功于宗教界。

冉阿让在苦役牢里换了号码。他叫九四三○号。

此外，我们一次说清，以后不再提了，滨海蒙特勒伊的繁荣已随马德兰先生消失了，凡是他在那次忧心如焚、迟疑不决的夜晚所预见到的一切都成了事实，丢了他，确也就是丢了灵魂。自从他垮台以后，滨海蒙特勒伊便出现了自私自利、四分五裂的局面，那种局面原是在大事业主持人失败后所常见的，人存事业兴隆，人亡分崩离析，那种悲惨的结局，在人类社会中是每天都在暗中进行着的，历史上却只在亚历山大死后①出现过一次。部将们自封为王，工头们自称业主。竞争猜忌出现了。马德兰先生的大工厂关了门，房屋坍塌，工人四散。有的离开了本乡，有的改了行。从那以后，一切都改用小规模进行，没有大规模的了；全为利己，不以利人。失了中心，处处都是竞争，顽强的竞争。马德兰先生曾主持一切，从中指挥。他倒了，于是每个人都为自身着想；倾轧的精神代替了组合的精神，粗暴代替了赤诚，相互的仇视代替了创办人对大众的关切；马德兰先生所结的丝全乱了，断了；大家偷工减料，降低了质量，失去了信用；销路阻滞，订货减少；工资降低，工场停工，结果破产。从此穷人空无所有。一切如云烟般消散。

①亚历山大死后，他所征服的领土上出现分裂割据的局面。　

连政府也感到在某处折了一根栋梁。自从那高等法院的判决书为了牢狱的利益，证明马德兰先生和冉阿让确是同一个人以后，不到四年，滨海蒙特勒伊一县的收税费用就增加了一倍，维莱尔先生也曾在一八二七年二月把这种情形在议会里提出过。

1 transcribing   

（用不同的录音手段）转录( transcribe的现在分词 )； 改编（乐曲）（以适应他种乐器或声部）； 抄写； 用音标标出（声音）

参考例句：

• They continue to remove molecules until the cell stops transcribing the gene. 他们继续除去分子，直到细胞不再转录基因为止。
• Q: Can I use Voice-to-Text software to help with the transcribing? 问：我能使用声音-到-本文的软件帮助转换吗？

2 epoch   

n.(新)时代；历元

参考例句：

• The epoch of revolution creates great figures.革命时代造就伟大的人物。
• We're at the end of the historical epoch,and at the dawn of another.我们正处在一个历史时代的末期，另一个历史时代的开端。

3 resuscitated   

v.使（某人或某物）恢复知觉，苏醒( resuscitate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The doctor resuscitated the man who was overcome by gas. 医生救活了那个煤气中毒的人。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• She had been literally rejuvenated, resuscitated, brought back from the lip of the grave. 她确确实实返老还童了，恢复了精力，被从坟墓的进口处拉了回来。 来自辞典例句

4 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

5 lodge   

v.临时住宿，寄宿，寄存，容纳；n.传达室，小旅馆

参考例句：

• Is there anywhere that I can lodge in the village tonight?村里有我今晚过夜的地方吗？
• I shall lodge at the inn for two nights.我要在这家小店住两个晚上。

6 lodged   

v.存放( lodge的过去式和过去分词 )；暂住；埋入；（权利、权威等）归属

参考例句：

• The certificate will have to be lodged at the registry. 证书必须存放在登记处。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Our neighbours lodged a complaint against us with the police. 我们的邻居向警方控告我们。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

8 legitimate   

adj.合法的，合理的，合乎逻辑的；v.使合法

参考例句：

• Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.生病是请假的一个正当的理由。
• That's a perfectly legitimate fear.怀有这种恐惧完全在情理之中。

9 concealed   

a.隐藏的，隐蔽的

参考例句：

• The paintings were concealed beneath a thick layer of plaster. 那些画被隐藏在厚厚的灰泥层下面。
• I think he had a gun concealed about his person. 我认为他当时身上藏有一支枪。

10 liberated   

a.无拘束的，放纵的

参考例句：

• The city was liberated by the advancing army. 军队向前挺进，解放了那座城市。
• The heat brings about a chemical reaction, and oxygen is liberated. 热量引起化学反应，释放出氧气。

11 wretch   

n.可怜的人，不幸的人；卑鄙的人

参考例句：

• You are really an ungrateful wretch to complain instead of thanking him.你不但不谢他，还埋怨他，真不知好歹。
• The dead husband is not the dishonoured wretch they fancied him.死去的丈夫不是他们所想象的不光彩的坏蛋。

12 indefatigable   

adj.不知疲倦的，不屈不挠的

参考例句：

• His indefatigable spirit helped him to cope with his illness.他不屈不挠的精神帮助他对抗病魔。
• He was indefatigable in his lectures on the aesthetics of love.在讲授关于爱情的美学时，他是不知疲倦的。

13 zeal   

n.热心，热情，热忱

参考例句：

• Revolutionary zeal caught them up,and they joined the army.革命热情激励他们，于是他们从军了。
• They worked with great zeal to finish the project.他们热情高涨地工作，以期完成这个项目。

14 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

15 interval   

n.间隔，间距；幕间休息，中场休息

参考例句：

• The interval between the two trees measures 40 feet.这两棵树的间隔是40英尺。
• There was a long interval before he anwsered the telephone.隔了好久他才回了电话。

16 indictment   

n.起诉；诉状

参考例句：

• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
• They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。

17 immortal   

adj.不朽的；永生的，不死的；神的

参考例句：

• The wild cocoa tree is effectively immortal.野生可可树实际上是不会死的。
• The heroes of the people are immortal!人民英雄永垂不朽！

18 soot   

n.煤烟，烟尘；vt.熏以煤烟

参考例句：

• Soot is the product of the imperfect combustion of fuel.煤烟是燃料不完全燃烧的产物。
• The chimney was choked with soot.烟囱被煤灰堵塞了。

19 skilful   

(=skillful)adj.灵巧的，熟练的

参考例句：

• The more you practise,the more skilful you'll become.练习的次数越多，熟练的程度越高。
• He's not very skilful with his chopsticks.他用筷子不大熟练。

20 eloquent   

adj.雄辩的，口才流利的；明白显示出的

参考例句：

• He was so eloquent that he cut down the finest orator.他能言善辩，胜过最好的演说家。
• These ruins are an eloquent reminder of the horrors of war.这些废墟形象地提醒人们不要忘记战争的恐怖。

21 penal   

adj.刑罚的；刑法上的

参考例句：

• I hope you're familiar with penal code.我希望你们熟悉本州法律规则。
• He underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft.他因犯了大窃案受过十九年的苦刑。

22 clemency   

n.温和，仁慈，宽厚

参考例句：

• The question of clemency would rest with the King.宽大处理问题，将由国王决定。
• They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency.他们向州长提交了宽刑的申辨书。

23 deigned   

v.屈尊，俯就( deign的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Carrie deigned no suggestion of hearing this. 嘉莉不屑一听。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
• Carrie scarcely deigned to reply. 嘉莉不屑回答。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

24 commute   

vi.乘车上下班；vt.减(刑)；折合；n.上下班交通

参考例句：

• I spend much less time on my commute to work now.我现在工作的往返时间要节省好多。
• Most office workers commute from the suburbs.很多公司的职员都是从郊外来上班的。

25 galleys   

n.平底大船，战舰( galley的名词复数 )；（船上或航空器上的）厨房

参考例句：

• Other people had drowned at sea since galleys swarmed with painted sails. 自从布满彩帆的大船下海以来，别的人曾淹死在海里。 来自辞典例句
• He sighed for the galleys, with their infamous costume. 他羡慕那些穿着囚衣的苦工。 来自辞典例句

26 recur   

vi.复发，重现，再发生

参考例句：

• Economic crises recur periodically.经济危机周期性地发生。
• Of course,many problems recur at various periods.当然，有许多问题会在不同的时期反复提出。

27 hesitation   

n.犹豫，踌躇

参考例句：

• After a long hesitation, he told the truth at last.踌躇了半天，他终于直说了。
• There was a certain hesitation in her manner.她的态度有些犹豫不决。

28 accomplished   

adj.有才艺的；有造诣的；达到了的

参考例句：

• Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
• Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。

29 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

30 lieutenants   

n.陆军中尉( lieutenant的名词复数 )；副职官员；空军；仅低于…官阶的官员

参考例句：

• In the army, lieutenants are subordinate to captains. 在陆军中，中尉是上尉的下级。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Lieutenants now cap at 1.5 from 1. Recon at 1. 中尉现在由1人口增加的1.5人口。侦查小组成员为1人口。 来自互联网

31 superintendents   

警长( superintendent的名词复数 )； （大楼的）管理人； 监管人； （美国）警察局长

参考例句：

• Unlike their New York counterparts, Portland school superintendents welcomed McFarlane. 这一次，地点是在波特兰。
• But superintendents and principals have wide discretion. 但是，地方领导和校长有自由裁量权。

32 improvise   

v.即兴创作；临时准备，临时凑成

参考例句：

• If an actor forgets his words，he has to improvise.演员要是忘记台词，那就只好即兴现编。
• As we've not got the proper materials,we'll just have to improvise.我们没有弄到合适的材料，只好临时凑合了。

33 envious   

adj.嫉妒的，羡慕的

参考例句：

• I don't think I'm envious of your success.我想我并不嫉妒你的成功。
• She is envious of Jane's good looks and covetous of her car.她既忌妒简的美貌又垂涎她的汽车。

34 rivalries   

n.敌对，竞争，对抗( rivalry的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The new government was torn by rivalries. 新政府由于各派对立而四分五裂。 来自辞典例句
• Rivalries could bring about pain and hatred or give rise to fighting. 竞争会带来痛苦、仇恨，或者引起争斗。 来自互联网

35 scattered   

adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的

参考例句：

• Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。

36 lucre   

n.金钱，财富

参考例句：

• She married a foreigner for mere lucre.她仅仅为钱财而嫁给了一个外国人。
• He would sell his soul for filthy lucre.他会为了不义之财而出卖灵魂。

37 reigned   

vi.当政，统治（reign的过去式形式）

参考例句：

• Silence reigned in the hall. 全场肃静。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Night was deep and dead silence reigned everywhere. 夜深人静，一片死寂。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

38 hatred   

n.憎恶，憎恨，仇恨

参考例句：

• He looked at me with hatred in his eyes.他以憎恨的眼光望着我。
• The old man was seized with burning hatred for the fascists.老人对法西斯主义者充满了仇恨。

39 benevolence   

n.慈悲，捐助

参考例句：

• We definitely do not apply a policy of benevolence to the reactionaries.我们对反动派决不施仁政。
• He did it out of pure benevolence. 他做那件事完全出于善意。

40 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

41 tangled   

adj. 纠缠的，紊乱的 动词tangle的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• Your hair's so tangled that I can't comb it. 你的头发太乱了，我梳不动。
• A movement caught his eye in the tangled undergrowth. 乱灌木丛里的晃动引起了他的注意。

42 bankruptcy   

n.破产；无偿付能力

参考例句：

• You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产，就必须节省开支。
• His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。

43 judgment   

n.审判；判断力，识别力，看法，意见

参考例句：

• The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
• He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。