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‘Well, I request one.’
‘What is it?’
‘That I may blow that man’s brains out.’
Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost
imperceptible movement, and said:
‘That is just.’
As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut
his eyes about him:
‘No objections.’
And he turned to Jean Valjean:
‘Take the spy.’
Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by
seating himself on the end of the table. He seized the pistol,
and a faint click announced that he had cocked it.
Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became
audible.
‘Take care!’ shouted Marius from the top of the barri-
cade.
Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which
was peculiar to him, and gazing intently at the insurgents,
he said to them:
‘You are in no better case than I am.’
‘All out!’ shouted Enjolras.
The insurgents poured out tumultuously, and, as they
went, received in the back,—may we be permitted the ex-
pression,— this sally of Javert’s:
‘We shall meet again shortly!’

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