Part 5 Book 5 Chapter 5 Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather than with a Notary

The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating¹ a lengthy² explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur-Mer; and that fearing that he might be recaptured,-- which eventually happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut³ shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had a pickaxe somewhere in the heather, in a hiding-place known to himself alone. When he beheld⁴ Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this occasion, in the morning instead of in the evening. Boulatreulle inherited his pickaxe.

The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred francs. Jean Valjean withdrew the five hundred francs for himself.--"We shall see hereafter," he thought.

The difference between that sum and the six hundred and thirty thousand francs withdrawn⁵ from Laffitte represented his expenditure⁶ in ten years, from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost only five thousand francs.

Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they glittered to the great admiration⁷ of Toussaint.

Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert. The story had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the Moniteur, how a police inspector⁸ named Javert had been found drowned under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise irreproachable⁹ and highly esteemed¹⁰ by his superiors, pointed¹¹ to a fit of mental aberration¹² and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must have been already mad."

不需要再详细解释，大家已经知道冉阿让在商马第案件之后，幸亏他第一次越狱数日，及时来到巴黎，从拉菲特银行中取出了他在滨海蒙特勒伊用马德兰先生的名字挣得的存款；为了怕再被捕，他把现款深深埋在孟费郿的布拉于矿地里，果然不久，他又被捕。幸亏六十三万法郎的纸币体积不大，放在一个盒里，但为了防备盒子受潮，他把纸盒子放入一个橡木小箱中，里面装满了栗树木屑。在小箱中，他又把他的另一宝物，主教的烛台也放了进去。我们还记得，当他从滨海蒙特勒伊逃跑时，他是带着这一对烛台的。蒲辣秃柳儿有一天傍晚第一次见到的那个人，就是冉阿让。事后每当冉阿让需要钱时，他就到矿地去取。我们提到过的他的几次旅行就是如此。他有一把十字镐藏在灌木丛中一个只有他知道的隐蔽处。当他看见马吕斯已初步恢复健康，他感到需要用款的时候已不远了，就去把钱取了出来；蒲辣秃柳儿在树林中看见的仍是他，这次是在清晨而不在傍晚。蒲辣秃柳儿继承了那把十字镐。

总数是五十八万四千五百法郎。冉阿让留五百法郎自己使用。“以后再看情况吧。”他思忖着。

从拉菲特银行取出的六十三万法郎和目前这笔钱之间的差数就是从一八二三年到一八三三年十年间的开支，在修女院五年只花了五千法郎。

冉阿让把一对闪烁发光的银烛台放在壁炉架上，杜桑看了十分羡慕。

此外，冉阿让知道自己已摆脱了沙威。有人在他面前讲过同时他也见到《通报》上的公告，证实了这件事，警务侦察员沙威淹死在交易所桥和新桥之间的一条洗衣妇的船下面，这个没有犯过错误并且深受长官器重的人，留下了一纸遗书，使人推测到他是因神经错乱而自杀的。“总之，”冉阿让暗想，“他既已抓住了我，又让我自由，毫无疑问，他已经神经失常了。”

1 necessitating   

使…成为必要，需要( necessitate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Multiple network transmissions overlapping in the physical channel, resulting in garbled data and necessitating retransmission. 多个网络传输重迭发生在同一物理信道上，它导致数据被破坏，因而必须重传。
• The health status of 435 consecutive patients with sleep disturbances necessitating polysomnography was investigated. 435个患有睡眠紊乱的病人进行多导睡眠描记法对其健康状况进行调查。

2 lengthy   

adj.漫长的，冗长的

参考例句：

• We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
• The professor wrote a lengthy book on Napoleon.教授写了一部有关拿破仑的巨著。

3 chestnut   

n.栗树，栗子

参考例句：

• We have a chestnut tree in the bottom of our garden.我们的花园尽头有一棵栗树。
• In summer we had tea outdoors,under the chestnut tree.夏天我们在室外栗树下喝茶。

4 beheld   

v.看，注视( behold的过去式和过去分词 )；瞧；看呀；（叙述中用于引出某人意外的出现）哎哟

参考例句：

• His eyes had never beheld such opulence. 他从未见过这样的财富。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The soul beheld its features in the mirror of the passing moment. 灵魂在逝去的瞬间的镜子中看到了自己的模样。 来自英汉文学 - 红字

5 withdrawn   

vt.收回；使退出；vi.撤退，退出

参考例句：

• Our force has been withdrawn from the danger area.我们的军队已从危险地区撤出。
• All foreign troops should be withdrawn to their own countries.一切外国军队都应撤回本国去。

6 expenditure   

n.(时间、劳力、金钱等)支出；使用，消耗

参考例句：

• The entry of all expenditure is necessary.有必要把一切开支入账。
• The monthly expenditure of our family is four hundred dollars altogether.我们一家的开销每月共计四百元。

7 admiration   

n.钦佩，赞美，羡慕

参考例句：

• He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
• We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。

8 inspector   

n.检查员，监察员，视察员

参考例句：

• The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
• The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。

9 irreproachable   

adj.不可指责的，无过失的

参考例句：

• It emerged that his past behavior was far from irreproachable.事实表明，他过去的行为绝非无可非议。
• She welcomed her unexpected visitor with irreproachable politeness.她以无可指责的礼仪接待了不速之客。

10 esteemed   

adj.受人尊敬的v.尊敬( esteem的过去式和过去分词 )；敬重；认为；以为

参考例句：

• The art of conversation is highly esteemed in France. 在法国十分尊重谈话技巧。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He esteemed that he understood what I had said. 他认为已经听懂我说的意思了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

12 aberration   

n.离开正路，脱离常规，色差

参考例句：

• The removal of the chromatic aberration is then of primary importance.这时消除色差具有头等重要性。
• Owing to a strange mental aberration he forgot his own name.由于一种莫名的精神错乱，他把自己的名字忘了。