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[bonapartist]

This is a journey on which I am not keen to travel. I hardly need to speak of that, and yet I feel I must. I must leave Cosette now, when our lives together are beginning? That is not what I intend. I can never be happy if I am apart from her.

[ He sighs, looking troubled and unsure. ]

Too much has been lost already. I have seen too many empty rooms, and I wish not to leave another one behind me. The friends who are gone cannot be found again, it is impossible.

I have to keep looking forward, it's the only way. The world is not how I dreamed it might be, it is not how any of us imagined.

I do not need another reminder of that fact.

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[bonapartist]

His people will hold him up as a martyr, and his ideals will outlive him. An idea cannot be killed, and one who believes in it shall be immortal in the eyes of the world. [ He can understand that well. He intended to make a martyr of himself, after all, to die a glorious death because he could not be with the one he loved.

But now he sees the cost, and the futility. An idea alone cannot bring back those who have gone. ] His is not a sacrifice they should forget - nor will they, I believe. New hands will take up his banner.

[ But not Marius' hands. The part of him that lived for glory died upon that barricade. ]

You have more faith than I can find in myself, my friend. I pray that you are right.

[orestes]

[He nods, leveling Marius with an intense, but affirming look.] We rise to meet challenges as they present themselves to us. You have the capacity to lead when necessary and bring a unique perspective of hope. I do not think my faith ill placed.