[Only a day or so ago, the realization would have impelled him to seize her immediately and install her in Les Madelonettes. Yet here, he does not make any sudden movements, doesn't bound ahead and collar her. That time has gone, dissolved when she took a bullet at the barricades, and when he took a spill into the Seine. There is no malintent in his gaze, only a cool, dispassionate recognition.
Believe it or not, relief glimmers in his dark eyes. Her presence in front of him is the last nail in his coffin. Any doubts about his own death peel away, and an eerie, reassured calm descends upon his shoulders. He affords a perfunctory glance down to his boots when she apologizes, and hums his blithe acknowledgement.]
The boots are old and require a scrubbing. You are about twenty-four-hours too late to muss them up much more than they already are. Think nothing of it.
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[Only a day or so ago, the realization would have impelled him to seize her immediately and install her in Les Madelonettes. Yet here, he does not make any sudden movements, doesn't bound ahead and collar her. That time has gone, dissolved when she took a bullet at the barricades, and when he took a spill into the Seine. There is no malintent in his gaze, only a cool, dispassionate recognition.
Believe it or not, relief glimmers in his dark eyes. Her presence in front of him is the last nail in his coffin. Any doubts about his own death peel away, and an eerie, reassured calm descends upon his shoulders. He affords a perfunctory glance down to his boots when she apologizes, and hums his blithe acknowledgement.]
The boots are old and require a scrubbing. You are about twenty-four-hours too late to muss them up much more than they already are. Think nothing of it.