Marius
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK NINTH. SUPREME SHADOW SUPREME DAWN CHAPTER III A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT’S CART
One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath was short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some supreme preoccupation, [...]
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK EIGHTH. FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT CHAPTER III THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET
This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: “My father!” He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he [...]
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK SIXTH. THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT CHAPTER II JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
To realize one’s dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. Cosette, both at the mayor’s office and at church, was dazzling and touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. Cosette wore [...]
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK FIFTH. GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER CHAPTER III MARIUS ATTACKED
One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said to him in his tenderest accents: “Look here, my little Marius, if I were in your place, I would eat meat now in preference to fish. A fried sole [...]
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK THIRD. MUD BUT THE SOUL CHAPTER IX MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD
He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. They were in the open air! The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him. Everywhere around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight [...]
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK FIRST. THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS CHAPTER XVIII THE VULTURE BECOME PREY
We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. Nothing which is characteristic of that surprising war of the streets should be omitted. Whatever may have been the singular inward tranquillity which we have just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, none the less, a vision. There is something of [...]
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK FIRST. THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS CHAPTER XIX JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE
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. [...]
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK FIRST. THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS CHAPTER XXII FOOT TO FOOT
When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, gave way. The cannon, though it had not effected a practicable breach, had made a rather large hollow in the [...]
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK FIRST. THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS CHAPTER XXIV PRISONER
Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. The hand which had seized him from behind and whose grasp he had felt at the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose himself in it. Had it not [...]
Les Miserables Volume 4 Marius BOOK THIRTEENTH. MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW CHAPTER I FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT DENIS
The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, had produced on him the effect of the voice of destiny. He wished to die; the opportunity presented itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness offered him the key. These [...]