Combeferre is still smiling. He finds it hard to look at Courfeyrac's face and do otherwise.
The glow of joy remains even when Courfeyrac mentions arrest. "Who arrested them?" To be sure, Bahorel being arrested need not reflect poorly on whoever did the arresting, and for a different reason the same holds true for Bossuet. Bahorel is perfectly capable of deliberately breaking a just law purely for the fun of the ensuing arrest, and Bossuet is perfectly capable of getting caught red-handed at a crime of which he is wholly innocent. Even so--Combeferre has just seen them both killed, and protectiveness flares easily within him.
"And I to see him." He hears Joly's voice again: "Consider the cat." Good cheer and good sense (of a kind), even when faced with the worst. His absence is suddenly unbearable. "How soon can that be? I will not be going back to sleep, not for a long while."
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The glow of joy remains even when Courfeyrac mentions arrest. "Who arrested them?" To be sure, Bahorel being arrested need not reflect poorly on whoever did the arresting, and for a different reason the same holds true for Bossuet. Bahorel is perfectly capable of deliberately breaking a just law purely for the fun of the ensuing arrest, and Bossuet is perfectly capable of getting caught red-handed at a crime of which he is wholly innocent. Even so--Combeferre has just seen them both killed, and protectiveness flares easily within him.
"And I to see him." He hears Joly's voice again: "Consider the cat." Good cheer and good sense (of a kind), even when faced with the worst. His absence is suddenly unbearable. "How soon can that be? I will not be going back to sleep, not for a long while."