Chapter 3
Volume 3: 3: Marius · Book 4: 4: The Friends of the Abc
3: The Astonishments of Marius
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IN a few days, Marius was the friend of Courfeyrac. Youth is the season of prompt weldings and rapid cicatrisations. Marius, in Courfeyrac's presence, breathed freely, a new thing for him. Courfeyrac asked him no questions. He did not even think of it. At that age, the countenance tells all at once. Speech is useless. There are some young men of whom we might say their physiognomies are talkative. They look at one another, they know one another.
One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly put this question to him.