Les Misérables Volume I Book 8 Chapter 3 - Javert Satisfied

In which the relentless Inspector Javert receives the arrest warrant for M. Madeleine, secretly the fugitive Jean Valjean, and approaches his quarry with a terrifying blend of rigid duty and ecstatic triumph. Though Javert’s countenance reveals the harsh joy of a fanatic convinced of his own unerring justice, there lingers a somber dignity in his unconsciously pitiful pride.