Javert

After Les Miserables

Have you ever been so sure you were right

that you broke another man's back
again and again? That, for simple lack,

you chased a man down, or out of simple spite

you ran down his name in the streets,
which amounts to the same thing. Feats

he almost did became feats for which he was quite

well-known, acts against average men
like you. He was …