javert

Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn her from the man.

The shadow cast by this man made Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean.

The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras.

He was not even absolutely sure that it was Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that he was Jean Valjean.

Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost imperceptible movement, and said.

Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his formidable happiness was to be pitied , as is every ignorant man who triumphs.

Javert was like an eye constantly fixed on M. Madeleine. An eye full of suspicion and conjecture.

"What a grenadier! " ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, mother, but I have claws like a woman. "

Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly.

She beheld Javert, the police spy, seize the mayor by the collar; she saw the mayor bow his head.

While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was surveying him with singular attention.

Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was Javert?

Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion submitting to the claws of a lynx.

Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was pinioned , he helped him to drink.

Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage.

In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and Javert bound to his post.

You know nothing of Javert.

Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue des Precheurs.

" Javert replied in his most imperious tone: -- " Why not at once?

Valjean's new life becomes very complex when a policeman called Javert starts following him.

Besides this, Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds.

On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see Fantine according to his wont.

I wish Javert were here; he would recognize me.

When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air.

Javert had never beheld the unknown except from below.

Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be Javert.

Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert.

replied Javert; "people are in the habit of talking aloud to me. "

because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could take only very short steps.

Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out, all because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom.

Javert catches the cat, plies open her jaws , and shoves a spoonful of mustard inside.

Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in accord with Javert's habits.

Javert asked the rest of the ruffians.

Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was terrible.

"Then give me a drink, " said Javert.

Javert repeated in a low voice: -- "Number 7. "

Of all our interior marvels, did Javert understand this?

"Untie the gentleman! " said Javert, "and let no one go out! "

Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his mouth, and he muttered between his teeth

Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the words, "human face, " which we have just applied to Javert.

Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes from Madeleine

Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to him, and gazing intently at the insurgents, he said to them

Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and said

Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time,

Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand,

Javert leaned both elbows on the parapet, his chin resting in both hands, and, while his nails were mechanically

When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras said to the spy

The spot where Javert was leaning was,

Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper,