Chapter 294 5 Jean Prouvel's Poetry Sudden Silence

Everyone surrounded Marius.Courfeyrac hugged his neck. "You're here too!" "Excellent!" said Combeferre. "You have come just in time!" said Bossuet. "Without you, I would be dead!" Courfeyrac went on. "Without you, I'm lost!" Gavroche added. Marius asked: "Where's the boss?" "The boss is you," said Enjolras. A fire had been burning in Marius's mind all day, and now a storm was rising.The storm was within him, but he felt it outside him, and was blowing him upside down.He seemed to feel that he was thousands of miles away from life.His two months of perfect joy and love should suddenly develop into the present desperate situation.The disappearance of Cosette, the barricade, M. Mabeuf, who had shed blood for the republic, and himself the leader of the uprising, all seemed to him like a thrilling nightmare.It takes a lot of concentration to remember that everything around him is real.Marius did not yet have enough experience in life to understand that what is most urgently needed is what he thinks he cannot do, and what he must be most wary of is the unpredictable.Watching his own play as he watched a play he could not understand.

Javert, who remained tied to the post, did not turn his head when the barricade was attacked, and watched the commotion around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of a judge.The delirious Marius did not even notice him at all. At this time, the invading officers and soldiers stopped their activities. People heard the sound of them walking around the street, but they no longer came to die. Maybe they were waiting for instructions, or they wanted to wait until their strength was strengthened before rushing to the place where they could not be defeated. fortress.The rebels sent out sentry posts again, and several medical students started bandaging the wounded.

Except for the two tables for bandages and bullets and the table on which Mabeuf was lying, all the other tables were taken out of the hotel and added to the barricades. In the hall, instead of those tables.They put the wounded on those thick mattresses.As for the original residents of Corinth, what happened to the three poor women, no one knew.It was later discovered that they were all hiding in the cellar. Everyone was rejoicing at the relief of the barricade, and then they were panicked and anxious about something. When the roll call was assembled, they found that one insurgent was missing.Who is missing?One of the dearest and most valiant is missing, Jean Prouvaire.They searched among the wounded, but he was not there.I searched among the corpses, but there was no him.He was apparently taken prisoner.

Combeferre said to Enjolras: "They've got our friends, but we've got their men too. Do you have to kill the agent?" "Of course," said Enjolras, "but Jean Prouvaire's life is more important." These words were spoken in the hall by Javert's pillar. "Then," continued Combeferre, "I may tie a handkerchief to my stick, and, as a representative of the negotiations, take their men and exchange them for ours." "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. All I could hear was the sound of a gun being pulled from the street.

They heard a man's voice shouting: "Long live France! Long live the future!" They recognized the voice of Jean Prouvel. The fire flashed, and the gun immediately rang. Then, there was no sound. "They killed him," cried Combeferre. Enjolras looked at Javert and said to him: "Your friend just shot you."