#les mis 4.1.6

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

Happy "You don't believe in everything" "I believe in you" day to all who celebrate

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

Enjolras, straight faced: Joly will go to Dupuytren’s clinical lecture, and feel the pulse of the medical school.

Enjolras, in his head: HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

how all the ExR shippers feel after Grantaire chooses to play Dominoes instead of recruiting people for the cause like Enjolras asked

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

this is actually what I look like when Hugo gives us the tiniest lil modicum of Les Amis de l'ABC characterisation

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

This is one of my favourite chapters in the whole book for many reasons (not least because I am an ExR girlie through and through), but I always enjoy this passage in particular:

Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, in his own mind, with Combeferre’s philosophical and penetrating eloquence, Feuilly’s cosmopolitan enthusiasm, Courfeyrac’s dash, Bahorel’s smile, Jean Prouvaire’s melancholy, Joly’s science, Bossuet’s sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. This was well.

Firstly bc a) 'Enjolras was content' it's all I want for him fr.

But also I just love how well it shows that Enjolras values the other members of Les Amis, both in their contributions to the Cause, and as his friends. Like a good leader should, he clearly knows their strengths and how to play to them, and it's one of those moments where you really understand how Les Amis work as a unit (Grantaire's contribution notwithstanding...)

"Surely, the result would answer to the effort. This was well." He's so full of hope I'm screaming crying throwing up