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to the floor, and exclaimed, weeping:—
‘My daughters!’
‘They are in the jug,’ said Javert.
In the meanwhile, the agents had caught sight of the
drunken man asleep behind the door, and were shaking
him:—
He awoke, stammering:—
‘Is it all over, Jondrette?’
‘Yes,’ replied Javert.
The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still pre-
served their spectral mien; all three besmeared with black,
all three masked.
‘Keep on your masks,’ said Javert.
And passing them in review with a glance of a Fred-
erick II. at a Potsdam parade, he said to the three
‘chimney-builders”:—
‘Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day,
Deuxmilliards!’
Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the
man with the meat-axe:—
‘Good day, Gueulemer!’
And to the man with the cudgel:—
‘Good day, Babet!’
And to the ventriloquist:—
‘Your health, Claquesous.’
At that moment, he caught sight of the ruffians’ prisoner.
who, ever since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a
word, and had held his head down.
‘Untie the gentleman!’ said Javert, ‘and let no one go

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