Emma Flournoy

*snickers* Good plan.

POOR COSETTE, RIGHT?! Isn’t she the cutest lil’ thing?

XD The world is a cruel place.

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XD I’ve learned to be wary of supposed deaths, and when they don’t find the body, well!

Yes, she is pretty cute. But she was like a scared little animal, especially when the stranger went out and brought back the doll for her. Like, “Whoa!” I know I’d be wary. XD But I’m glad she’s now with Jean, even if she doesn’t realise it.

Usually. XD

Yup, that! XD

I know! Poor thing. Yes, totally. Isn’t he the sweetest?

Right. XD

@emma-flournoy Not yet, I don’t think. We just met the guy whose life Jean saved from under the wagon.

*nods*

Lol, not yet. XD It was the chapter about how Javert missed capturing Jean Valjean.

Too bad for Javert. XD

EXACTLY!

*hushed whisper* Because it makes you holier, y’know.
Aahh. I’ve always felt sorry for people who think convents or monasteries or monastic life in general are the best way to a life of service 100% devoted to God. It’s kinda sad. Of course, not all are as drastic as THAT one, but still.

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For some people, it probably is, because they wouldn’t have any distractions. But it doesn’t have to be so extreme. XD

True. But yeah. 😛

YES IT DOES! I just rarely use it. XD

What time is it for you?

@PerfectFifths ’bout 8:15 a.m. You?

Now it’s 9:17pm. So you’re 12 hours behind me. Are you on daylight savings?

Oh, that’s cool! Nice and exact. How kind of it. Yes, we’re on daylight savings. Does Australia do that too?
So it’s still Wednesday for you now, but actually…no, it’s 36 minutes past midnight now and you’re probably in bed. I’d imagine. XD So it’s already 36 minutes into your Thursday. Neat-o.

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I think in some places, but we voted it out from here several years ago. So you’ll be 13 hours behind then the time goes back.

Yep, now it’s Thursday, 9:45 am.

Just had several chapters about urchins of Paris, then about Paris itself, then about a specific urchin, and I know exactly who he is already, poor lad.

Have not yet been reacquainted with Jean and Cosette, and it’s been 8 or 9 years.

So the story hasn’t really begun yet? Wow, and so much has happened already. XD

But I guess it’s like Count of Monte Cristo. I mean, I thought the story was going to be about Edmund Dantes’ life, then he went to jail and lost a lot of his life in there, and then suddenly it was also about the children of the people who sent him there. XD

Yeah.

Yeah, I get that, but old books have a lot more to them, I think, in terms of backstory and all that. It saves writing a prequel. 😉

I don’t know if he’s any degree of overdramatic. I hardly know the boy. XD

@emma-flournoy Okay, so Marius has just been learning about his father, and is now estranged from his grandfather and aunt, and just left home.

I like Marius, so far. He kind of reminds me a bit of Albert and Maximilian.

That was pretty OTT. XD I mean, his change of his political views was realistic (he was learning about a whole other side he’d never been told about before) if a little rushed. We only just met him, so we might not have cared about all that just yet. 😉 But opening the window was a bit OTT. XD But yeah, I think I’m going to like Marius.

I’ve just…[Read more]

Yup. 😀

Heh. I know the feeling. XD But yes, they are. All of them to some degree, some of them more than others. (*muffled screeching* ENJOLRASSSS) I love them all. Mostly. XD But they’re really an interesting group of young characters, and they do have much importance to play. What Hugo should have done was instead of giving us those info dumps…[Read more]

Yup, L’aigle (aka Bossuet, as I think it calls him more later) is like that. Really sweet as a general rule.

Yeah. XD

Yo, how cometh violin? Mine’s actually going really well. Has something to do with having surrendered it to the Lord recently, undoubtedly… so God gets the credit. We’ll see if I can quit trying to do it on my own. XD
Also,…[Read more]

Aha, I thought Bossuet was L’aigle. I recently came across him speaking, and I was thinking “He sounds like how Emma described L’aigle” and I remembered L’aigle wasn’t his real name, so I figured it was him. 😉
Courfeyrac seems really down-to-earth, but fun.

Things are happenin’. Marius just got Javert’s help in catching Jondrette, but I think…[Read more]

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Yup. 😉 He’s great.

Ooooh. Such complexity, yes. XD I love those scenes.

Oh, yay for sickness. :/ Hope you get better soon. Yeah, that makes a lotta sense. I have problems with things out of my control. XD Well, maybe life’ll settle down sometime soon! I’m sure your violin misses you. 😉
Errrr…I’m not really sure. I’m fixing to finish the…[Read more]

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So, I was actually almost starting to wonder is M. LeBlanc wasn’t Jean Valjean after all! :O But his behaviour as soon as Javert entered the scene made me see the error of my ways. What was I thinking?? XD

Thanks. Life is more settled, it’s just sickness now. Yes, my poor widdle violin (which, fun fact, I named Orlando XD) is all…[Read more]

Ha! But of course, what were you thinking?! XD I love it. Javert’s arrival can always make such things crystal clear.

Well I just got sick too (yeah, overnight 😛 ), so we can be a team now. XD Aww…de poor widdle fing. *sniff* Orlando! 😀 That’s hilarious. A violin we have I used to play on I named Fili once, but my current one isn’t named.…[Read more]

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I blame my cold-brain. 😉 Yes, it does. XD You know who’s running from the law (Jean) and who’s just confused (Marius). XD

Oops, I must have sent it over the internet – must be a virus 😛 XD Yay, sick buddies. XD lol, yes, Orlando (not that I refer to it as that all the time 😉 ). But I called it that because it was made by…[Read more]

XD

XD again.
Ooh, cool.

Nice.

;P

Good. 😀 I think it gets darker, but it evidently wasn’t too dark.

Truth.
Heh. Well, you probably know by now, and it wouldn’t be a huge spoiler for me to confirm it anyway. XD M. M. is indeed Jean Valjean. All the things will come clear in their good time. *rubs hands gleefully* O yes Precious. And yes, he’s working quite hard to turn his life around.

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Yep. I was pretty sure, and then the very beginning of a chapter confirmed it, and I felt silly for doubting. I should know by now that if you believe a character to be that ex-convict/innocent prisoner in disguise, then they are. 😉 XD

Exactly right. XD

Righto, he does have real crime of his own again. They are justified in wanting him back behind bars; what they don’t understand is that he’s truly changed, and whether or not that gives any cause for leniency of any sort. Mercy vs. Justice. *smirk* But it’s still a tough question.
Wellll…yeah, but that wouldn’t be EXACTLY fair either, because…[Read more]

Aha, so, Jean Valjean just revealed himself to the courtroom (like I knew and hoped he would), and the man mistaken as him is freed. So far, Jean hasn’t been arrested again. I felt rather sorry for the Pere (the falsely accused man), because he really had no idea what was going on.

I reckon he’d be intelligent in certain areas, but overall…[Read more]

(Which is why I can make all my comments without tagging you at all and you still get notified. Cuz it’s on your activity. ;P)

(I get it. I’ll try and remember 😉 )

I love Jean Valjean all the more, except for the fact that he escaped again and caused Sister Simplice to lie (but then again, she chose to – I don’t know!) but he ran away, and Fantine didn’t get to see Cosette, and now Cosette’s either stuck with those horrible people, or turned out unto the streets. I…[Read more]

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Yes, they’re interesting, and they’re certainly making Napoleon seem more like a person to me than a faceless thing that did stuff and got defeated at Waterloo. And if I were reading a book about Napoleon’s life, or about the battles he fought, they would be great. As it is, we…[Read more]

Yup. ;P