[Stopping someone from pursuing a field of study that they are doing well in and seemingly enjoy or otherwise find valuable? Enjolras would not dare. He might privately mock it in his own mind, but there are things he does not say to people themselves usually, and, well, honestly? Marius reading more things is good for him. It's good for all of them. Not only that it gives Marius some form of distraction, but also because the language studies seem especially useful.

And too, Temeraire seems as if he must be good for Marius as well.

And at least the copy of the Organt Enjolras recovered here has his notes from his first reading of it and then on, so it's not as if the 'disgusting' and 'vulgar' parts, nor his notes on them can be ignored. He's smiling, a little, at Marius's question there.]

Of course, you might. You will find I have marked them to my own...sentiments but if you do not mind ignoring my angry scrawling in the margins, please feel free.

I also have a gift for you, in light of...you have tolerated much from me since I arrived here, Marius. To thank you for your continued patience and offers of friendship even when I do not deserve them and to say that I hope that they continue. It's a bit foolish, I admit...

[But he IS handing over a clumsily wrapped small bundle with a few toy soldiers in Napoleonic uniforms inside. He had them painted at one of the vendors here, thinking Marius may appreciate the sentimentality or at least be amused enough by them.]