She nods, taking that in. That means that she may not stay here, either, nor he. And the look on his face when he speaks of Gavroche is not much, if any, better than when he speaks of her. It may just be that Paris is a bit of a death sentence for them both: as she'd said to their father, who cares if she gets murdered one day or picked off the road from starving a year later? It all ends the same way. But for Gavroche, she feels a bit more protective.
"Capricious, is that how you'd call what Paris is," she says with a little smirk. For all of its faults, she does love the city, but she loves it as she loves her mother: almost without knowing why. For Marius, Paris may be a place of learning, for her -- well it's an education as well, an education in how best-laid plans go awry. It's a very pretty place to be poor if she had to choose one, and to wander on her own, and there are more people to squeeze money out of than in Montfermeil, perhaps. But mostly it's full of cholera and dirt same as any other place.
"I think I like here better anyway," she shrugs, keeping an aloof tone; she is determined not to think too long on the fact that she's missed her brother entirely and may not see him again at all, if what Marius says is true. "But their food may do the telling."
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Date: 2017-12-19 09:12 pm (UTC)"Capricious, is that how you'd call what Paris is," she says with a little smirk. For all of its faults, she does love the city, but she loves it as she loves her mother: almost without knowing why. For Marius, Paris may be a place of learning, for her -- well it's an education as well, an education in how best-laid plans go awry. It's a very pretty place to be poor if she had to choose one, and to wander on her own, and there are more people to squeeze money out of than in Montfermeil, perhaps. But mostly it's full of cholera and dirt same as any other place.
"I think I like here better anyway," she shrugs, keeping an aloof tone; she is determined not to think too long on the fact that she's missed her brother entirely and may not see him again at all, if what Marius says is true. "But their food may do the telling."