Anonymous asked:
Oh yay the askbox is open! Bless your light! So, I was wondering, could we get a Brick-accurate representation of Javert in the martingale? Any particular moment is fine, but I have a couple of suggestions: 1) When they’re tying him up and Valjean comes in and watches or 2) when Valjean grabs him by the rope in front “like you would take a beast of burden by the breastband.” There’s no room to paste the whole description from the Brick, sorry about that :( but I think you know the part I mean
When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of which was under the table. After this he made him a sign to rise.
Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of enchained authority is condensed.
Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could take only very short steps.