Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble.

“The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.”

“The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature conso…”

“In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in hi…”

“The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separ…”