is d''or, two five-franc pieces, and five or six large sous.
Thenardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the neck.
"You knocked him over cheap," said he.
He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the greatest familiarity.
Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping his back to the light, let him have his way.
While handling Marius'' coat, Thenardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the assassin.
However, he found no more than the thirty francs.
"That''s true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that."
And, forgetting his motto:
"half shares," he took all.
He hesitated a little over the large sous.
After due reflection, he took them also, muttering:
"Never mind!
You cut folks'' throats too cheap altogether."
That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse.
"Now, my friend, you must leave.
It''s like the fair here, you pay when you go out.
You have paid, now clear out."
And he began to laugh.
Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to doubt this.