Someone from another cultural context might have more qualified feelings about patriotism. Enjolras emphatically does not. He smiles at the statement, small and glowingly real.
"Yes."
All right, so Harry Percy's country is not France; that's not the point. France and England have no great love for each other, and that's not the point either. His country is his own. That's as it should be.
"Though," he does add, "the more voice they have in their country, the dearer they'll feel both love of their homeland and desire to defend her."
Harry Percy's country is his own, but it's also his own in the 1400s, when a lord does raise the men of his own land, for his own purposes, good or ill, without asking much of their thoughts on the matter.
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"Yes."
All right, so Harry Percy's country is not France; that's not the point. France and England have no great love for each other, and that's not the point either. His country is his own. That's as it should be.
"Though," he does add, "the more voice they have in their country, the dearer they'll feel both love of their homeland and desire to defend her."
Harry Percy's country is his own, but it's also his own in the 1400s, when a lord does raise the men of his own land, for his own purposes, good or ill, without asking much of their thoughts on the matter.