"I told the spy he would be killed. I gave him to you for execution. If not you, it would have been another. Perhaps even me."
And Enjolras would indeed have shot him. He would have hated the necessity, hated the deed -- but he would have done it, and moved on without hesitation.
"You did not kill him, as it turns out. Do you think that lifts anything from my conscience?"
Enjolras accepts all that he's done, and any consequences of it. He gave himself over to the necessities of the old world in order to end them: to end the old order of injustice and suffering, and to bring about a new world which would have no need and no place for those like him.
no subject
"I told the spy he would be killed. I gave him to you for execution. If not you, it would have been another. Perhaps even me."
And Enjolras would indeed have shot him. He would have hated the necessity, hated the deed -- but he would have done it, and moved on without hesitation.
"You did not kill him, as it turns out. Do you think that lifts anything from my conscience?"
Enjolras accepts all that he's done, and any consequences of it. He gave himself over to the necessities of the old world in order to end them: to end the old order of injustice and suffering, and to bring about a new world which would have no need and no place for those like him.