Not especially, or at least, not entirely in the way I think you mean.
[He doesn't want to rush this conversation, or explanation, really, though a lot of the specifics make it a little difficult.]
I was already close to seventeen when I came to Paris to begin studying law. I had no aptitude for medicine, [A fact which seems slightly ironic now, considering he helps at the hospital here.] so law it was, and well, it was actually rather expected I'd remain in Paris, once I had finished school enough to sit the bar, and set up practice there.
For a lawyer, there was much more of a chance at finding work there. So, that in and of itself was not so much a problem as all of that. It was rather expected, really, that law students in Paris...how shall I put this?, lingered for rather a long time. I would have probably stayed there for a while yet, if I had not managed to die.
Paris was...I did miss home at times, but it became a new one. I would probably not have returned to Cassis to stay unless I was badly needed there after that point. I was an only son, so someday, I suppose it would have happened, but until then, keeping my letters short, and doing my best to limit our face to face contact to the times that it was truly necessary became the better choice.
I do not mean to...my parents were fine enough people, but there became a point, after I was first sent to school, when they were less my parents and rather more like glamorous strangers whom I sometimes saw at holidays. It was not an uncommon situation for many like us, then, so that, when I found politics, perhaps it is a bit more understandable than it might have otherwise been.
But then, Les Amis de l'ABC became a family as well. [It is odd. Enjolras still hates that they are all departed,save for him, but it is easier to speak of without feeling like he may need to go excuse himself while getting those thoughts in order.]
Better brothers I could not have found anywhere in all the world. I was lucky to have them as I did, and luckier still, that many of them were here, for a while. It...helped quite a lot, and I do miss them, still.
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[He doesn't want to rush this conversation, or explanation, really, though a lot of the specifics make it a little difficult.]
I was already close to seventeen when I came to Paris to begin studying law. I had no aptitude for medicine, [A fact which seems slightly ironic now, considering he helps at the hospital here.] so law it was, and well, it was actually rather expected I'd remain in Paris, once I had finished school enough to sit the bar, and set up practice there.
For a lawyer, there was much more of a chance at finding work there. So, that in and of itself was not so much a problem as all of that. It was rather expected, really, that law students in Paris...how shall I put this?, lingered for rather a long time. I would have probably stayed there for a while yet, if I had not managed to die.
Paris was...I did miss home at times, but it became a new one. I would probably not have returned to Cassis to stay unless I was badly needed there after that point. I was an only son, so someday, I suppose it would have happened, but until then, keeping my letters short, and doing my best to limit our face to face contact to the times that it was truly necessary became the better choice.
I do not mean to...my parents were fine enough people, but there became a point, after I was first sent to school, when they were less my parents and rather more like glamorous strangers whom I sometimes saw at holidays. It was not an uncommon situation for many like us, then, so that, when I found politics, perhaps it is a bit more understandable than it might have otherwise been.
But then, Les Amis de l'ABC became a family as well. [It is odd. Enjolras still hates that they are all departed,save for him, but it is easier to speak of without feeling like he may need to go excuse himself while getting those thoughts in order.]
Better brothers I could not have found anywhere in all the world. I was lucky to have them as I did, and luckier still, that many of them were here, for a while. It...helped quite a lot, and I do miss them, still.