"To be honest, I don't understand it. I wouldn't have thought it possible."
"But it has occurred. Bossuet is here: he is manifestly from that time. The first thing he asked me was why I was in a wineshop rather than helping to take the Hôtel de Ville. He's here, and he is Bound. A man need not understand all details of a situation to take advantage of its consequences."
"How will the changes unfold? I don't know. What will the consequences be for you and me, here, and the others with us? I don't know that either. But we have this chance. I see no reasonable course but to take it."
The strangeness of saying words like this not to Combeferre, but in conversation with Grantaire of all people, is a quiet, nagging feeling of disorientation. But there's a gift in it, all the same. Never before could he have imagined having such a discussion with Grantaire; and yet here they are.
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"But it has occurred. Bossuet is here: he is manifestly from that time. The first thing he asked me was why I was in a wineshop rather than helping to take the Hôtel de Ville. He's here, and he is Bound. A man need not understand all details of a situation to take advantage of its consequences."
"How will the changes unfold? I don't know. What will the consequences be for you and me, here, and the others with us? I don't know that either. But we have this chance. I see no reasonable course but to take it."
The strangeness of saying words like this not to Combeferre, but in conversation with Grantaire of all people, is a quiet, nagging feeling of disorientation. But there's a gift in it, all the same. Never before could he have imagined having such a discussion with Grantaire; and yet here they are.