I repeat that I recognize him perfectly.''"
This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression on the public and on the jury.
The district-attorney concluded by insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly interrogated.⑩思⑩兔⑩在⑩線⑩閱⑩讀⑩
The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, the door of the witnesses'' room opened.
The usher, accompanied by a gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict Brevet.
The audience was in suspense; and all breasts heaved as though they had contained but one soul.
The ex-convict Brevet wore the black and gray waistcoat of the central prisons.
Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of business man''s face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go together.
In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors said, "He tries to make himself of use."
The chaplains bore good testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this passed under the Restoration.
"Brevet