You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that account.
You would not even have been gagged.
And I will tell you why.
This room is very private. That''s its only recommendation, but it has that in its favor. You might fire off a mortar and it would produce about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a drunken man. Here a cannon would make a boum, and the thunder would make a pouf. It''s a handy lodging.
But, in short, you did not shout, and it is better so.
I present you my compliments, and I will tell you the conclusion that I draw from that fact:
My dear sir, when a man shouts, who comes?
The police.
And after the police? Justice.//本//作//品//由//思//兔//網//提//供//線//上//閱//讀//
Well!
You have not made an outcry; that is because you don''t care to have the police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something.
On our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding."
As he spoke thus, it seemed as though Thenardier, who kept his eyes fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted from the pupils into the very conscience of his prisoner. Moreover, his language, which was stamped with a sort of moderated, subdued insolence and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that rascal, who had been nothing but a robber a short time previously, one now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood."