You'll love each other, you will, you're both so good--
Can she promise that, truly, after what's just happened with her father?
"I love you, Maman," she cries instead, with a little tremble of emotion in her voice, and flings her arms around her mother's neck again.
That she can say, and mean with all her heart. And if she says it enough, and means it enough, maybe it will make up for the rest, and this sudden quiet twinge of guilt that she and Marius aren't strong enough to be and do everything they ought to.
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You'll love each other, you will, you're both so good--
Can she promise that, truly, after what's just happened with her father?
"I love you, Maman," she cries instead, with a little tremble of emotion in her voice, and flings her arms around her mother's neck again.
That she can say, and mean with all her heart. And if she says it enough, and means it enough, maybe it will make up for the rest, and this sudden quiet twinge of guilt that she and Marius aren't strong enough to be and do everything they ought to.