Enjolras shakes his head: no need to go on, at least right this moment.
Damn.
This is the first thing that's made him want to ask hard questions of Victor Hugo -- but Hugo isn't here, and the book is published. An influential classic.
"A thief once, he told me, but no longer." All he's said to any of the others, until now, is his reasons are his own. He doesn't need to say that he believed and respected Fauchelevent, and still does. "I've rarely seen a man so ready to apologize for the slightest offense, and brush away his own good deeds like a shameful secret. But he has the TF on his shoulder."
And thus every day he walks in freedom, he's committing a crime. The law is unjust, cruel, awful; and it hangs over Fauchelevent like Damocles' sword, the horsehair ready to snap at any policeman's notice.
"Why would Hugo have used his real name in this?" A rhetorical question. Enjolras doesn't expect Bahorel to have any answer. "It's different for us. For Marius too, if he spoke with him later. But a good man treated unjustly by the law, very well; he didn't need to make the man identifiable."
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Damn.
This is the first thing that's made him want to ask hard questions of Victor Hugo -- but Hugo isn't here, and the book is published. An influential classic.
"A thief once, he told me, but no longer." All he's said to any of the others, until now, is his reasons are his own. He doesn't need to say that he believed and respected Fauchelevent, and still does. "I've rarely seen a man so ready to apologize for the slightest offense, and brush away his own good deeds like a shameful secret. But he has the TF on his shoulder."
And thus every day he walks in freedom, he's committing a crime. The law is unjust, cruel, awful; and it hangs over Fauchelevent like Damocles' sword, the horsehair ready to snap at any policeman's notice.
"Why would Hugo have used his real name in this?" A rhetorical question. Enjolras doesn't expect Bahorel to have any answer. "It's different for us. For Marius too, if he spoke with him later. But a good man treated unjustly by the law, very well; he didn't need to make the man identifiable."