Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked…

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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere. ✨ Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). Les misérables, Dutton Adult
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