[Oh, totally history books! He can roll with this.
Except he does feel a sudden panic, an abrupt speeding up of his heartbeat, and he squeezes his eyes shut and jerks his head abruptly to one side to yank himself back to the present. He looks mildly apologetic when he opens his eyes and meets hers again, but he decides not to say anything on the matter; perhaps she would think it was only an odd mannerism.
In any case, if she had read it in her history books, then France must exist in her world. He looks eager and much interested now as he asks,]
Would you know, mademoiselle, what Paris is like in your time?
[He wants to further ask if the Luxemborg is still there, or the Rue Plumet, if the meadow of the lark still exists, but he finds himself tongue-tied simply recalling them and their connected memories to Cosette.]
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Except he does feel a sudden panic, an abrupt speeding up of his heartbeat, and he squeezes his eyes shut and jerks his head abruptly to one side to yank himself back to the present. He looks mildly apologetic when he opens his eyes and meets hers again, but he decides not to say anything on the matter; perhaps she would think it was only an odd mannerism.
In any case, if she had read it in her history books, then France must exist in her world. He looks eager and much interested now as he asks,]
Would you know, mademoiselle, what Paris is like in your time?
[He wants to further ask if the Luxemborg is still there, or the Rue Plumet, if the meadow of the lark still exists, but he finds himself tongue-tied simply recalling them and their connected memories to Cosette.]