• 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: 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