Enjolras can picture it well enough. His mouth twists for a wry moment, not without a little distant humor. Perhaps Javert marched up to Joly to deliver the message, and then reprimanded him for conversing with a policeman?
"How did he learn of it, do you know?"
It was always a chance that Javert would guess, or that the wrong ears would hear of an old bourgeois man with a limp no matter how many precautions Enjolras took. But he did take as many precautions as he could. And from the sound of that threat, Javert might know something for certain, rather than merely guessing.
It's always hard to be sure how much weight to put on Javert delivering a threat or an ultimatum to Enjolras instead of all of them. He seems to conceive of Enjolras standing in for all of them, as a hierarchical leader and commander, in a way that's frankly insulting. But there's the wording, too; it's specific.
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Enjolras can picture it well enough. His mouth twists for a wry moment, not without a little distant humor. Perhaps Javert marched up to Joly to deliver the message, and then reprimanded him for conversing with a policeman?
"How did he learn of it, do you know?"
It was always a chance that Javert would guess, or that the wrong ears would hear of an old bourgeois man with a limp no matter how many precautions Enjolras took. But he did take as many precautions as he could. And from the sound of that threat, Javert might know something for certain, rather than merely guessing.
It's always hard to be sure how much weight to put on Javert delivering a threat or an ultimatum to Enjolras instead of all of them. He seems to conceive of Enjolras standing in for all of them, as a hierarchical leader and commander, in a way that's frankly insulting. But there's the wording, too; it's specific.