full speed

Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the district-attorney shut himself
up with the President. They conferred "as to the necessity of seizing the person of M. Le
Maire of M. sur M." This phrase, in which there was a GREat deal of of, is the district-
attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his report to the attorney-general.
His first emotion having passed off, the President did not offer many objections. Justice
must, after all, take its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was a
kindly and a tolerably intelligent man, he was, at the same time, a devoted and almost an
ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear the Mayor of M. sur M. say the Emperor, and
not Bonaparte, when alluding to the landing at Cannes.

The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The district-attorney forwarded it to
M. sur M. by a special messenger, at full speed, and entrusted its execution to Police
Inspector Javert.

The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. Immediately after having given his
deposition.

Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the order of arrest and the
command to produce the prisoner.