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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]

My friend. [ So much emotion in that statement, so much sadness. It is hard for him to bear. ]

A single night cannot change the world. That was a dream that did not come true; I am not the man for that.

Perhaps I never was.

[barricader]

[Marius is a man of passion led by his heart, and as Enjolras thought by his ideals.]

A single act Marius is the beginning of change. It does not come without a sacrifice.

You understand that.

[bonapartist]

I thought I did. [ He looks up. ] You asked if we knew the price we might pay. I did, my friend, and I was ready.

Such passion is harder in the morning, when day breaks. Sacrifice can seem needless then.

[barricader]

The morning after is what counts my friend.

He was aware of his own fate, stood at the window. There had been the bitter taste of failure. Revolution would breed revolution. The deaths on the barricade could be the spark that was needed to finally stir the people.]

The people must rise, and pick up the banner. They cannot stay silent forever.

[bonapartist]

I do not any longer know what is for the best. Once I was sure.

Now there are too many memories. Perhaps you would think the same, if you had seen what I have seen.

[ If he had seen life continue, as if that night had never been. The people feel very far from rising to him. ]