Enjolras is grave; calm, as well, but on this subject he will never be anything but melancholy and sober.
"It changes nothing, at the root. But I suppose it's good to know that none of our men were such hotheaded scoundrels."
Killing him was a moral wrong, a betrayal of principles. And it was necessary. That would be true whether this was his only crime or, as it seems it was, the last of a lifetime of atrocities.
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Enjolras is grave; calm, as well, but on this subject he will never be anything but melancholy and sober.
"It changes nothing, at the root. But I suppose it's good to know that none of our men were such hotheaded scoundrels."
Killing him was a moral wrong, a betrayal of principles. And it was necessary. That would be true whether this was his only crime or, as it seems it was, the last of a lifetime of atrocities.