If there were jokes to be made about the irony of a romantic entanglement with your murderer, Enjolras was hardly the person to pick up on them. Instead, he hummed approvingly at the change of subject. They poke some fun at Courfeyrac's expense for the moment.
"Better for us, worse for them. It's a good thing he makes a point to a of married women, I suppose." Other men he knew had been slightly less upright in their womanizing. Courfeyrac had insisted on a certain decorum, a certain Romance to his romances and while Enjolras had never seem them as truly meritorious of his friend's time, he had to admire at least his intention. "Though that didn't keep him from charming Madame Pontmercy, when her husband was not looking."
The kiss had been innocent enough. As a point of fact, Cosette was a loving enough person to have kissed each of her husband's friends in the same way, but it made for an excellent story. If Joly were to be the affable socialite, and Enjolras the brooding scholar, perhaps Courfeyrac could play the Casanova in the eyes of the media. It would round out the appeal of their collective quite well. And Marius, Marius would soon be useful in other ways.
"You learn which of their lies to accept and which to push against. Sometimes you cannot push against them at all and so you learn to push around instead." He blinked in surprise at the peculiar timing of that particular thought. However many months ago, he had expressed similar sentiments to Venus moments before she's snapped his neck. "You can convince people of very little and persuade them of less when their minds have already been made up. Often their perceptions of you will hold more weight than anything that you say."
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"Better for us, worse for them. It's a good thing he makes a point to a of married women, I suppose." Other men he knew had been slightly less upright in their womanizing. Courfeyrac had insisted on a certain decorum, a certain Romance to his romances and while Enjolras had never seem them as truly meritorious of his friend's time, he had to admire at least his intention. "Though that didn't keep him from charming Madame Pontmercy, when her husband was not looking."
The kiss had been innocent enough. As a point of fact, Cosette was a loving enough person to have kissed each of her husband's friends in the same way, but it made for an excellent story. If Joly were to be the affable socialite, and Enjolras the brooding scholar, perhaps Courfeyrac could play the Casanova in the eyes of the media. It would round out the appeal of their collective quite well. And Marius, Marius would soon be useful in other ways.
"You learn which of their lies to accept and which to push against. Sometimes you cannot push against them at all and so you learn to push around instead." He blinked in surprise at the peculiar timing of that particular thought. However many months ago, he had expressed similar sentiments to Venus moments before she's snapped his neck. "You can convince people of very little and persuade them of less when their minds have already been made up. Often their perceptions of you will hold more weight than anything that you say."