It's said with a small smile, but Enjolras means it utterly. Oh, not necessarily Feuilly -- that's up to Feuilly, and whether he continues to like the fellow -- but people who aren't like him, people who aren't nobility or soldiers, people who will broaden his horizons, people who will tell him about things he would never have thought to care about. Everyone needs that. A man of the nobility, a man quick to impatience and quick to certainty -- both of those men, doubly so.
"We spoke about equality, the rights of mankind, a little. The thesis of The Social Contract in the shortest summary form. He came from trying to overthrow a king, but in the old way, only for another. To dissolve the institution of kingship -- oh, did I mean to raise the nobility in the king's place? When I said no, all men, all equal, he was intrigued, I think, but confused too. Well, and exhausted, of course. He asked time to think it over."
"A funny fellow. As courteous as anyone could ask one moment, plunging his head in a basin or roaring at the skies the next. You're right, he and Bahorel would either be instant friends or punch each other bloody, or both. I liked him well enough too, from what I saw. But that's not so much yet."
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It's said with a small smile, but Enjolras means it utterly. Oh, not necessarily Feuilly -- that's up to Feuilly, and whether he continues to like the fellow -- but people who aren't like him, people who aren't nobility or soldiers, people who will broaden his horizons, people who will tell him about things he would never have thought to care about. Everyone needs that. A man of the nobility, a man quick to impatience and quick to certainty -- both of those men, doubly so.
"We spoke about equality, the rights of mankind, a little. The thesis of The Social Contract in the shortest summary form. He came from trying to overthrow a king, but in the old way, only for another. To dissolve the institution of kingship -- oh, did I mean to raise the nobility in the king's place? When I said no, all men, all equal, he was intrigued, I think, but confused too. Well, and exhausted, of course. He asked time to think it over."
"A funny fellow. As courteous as anyone could ask one moment, plunging his head in a basin or roaring at the skies the next. You're right, he and Bahorel would either be instant friends or punch each other bloody, or both. I liked him well enough too, from what I saw. But that's not so much yet."