"Eh, yes. The court, of course." Feuilly is about to comment that in Russia the nobility also favor French, to the great loss of their own native language, widening the gulf between classes to a sickening degree, but that's--is that maybe a little bit--well, call it didactic--? For the circumstances?
(These circumstances are circumstances that generally happen to other people, as far as Feuilly is concerned. Which has been just fine! He's almost entirely been too busy, too happily wrapped up in a cause that needed all of him, always, and then always a little bit more. But. This is a thing that people do, and he is a person, isn't he? And--)
On the strength of this conviction he lets the subject of linguistics fall, and touches the collar of Harry's shirt with a questioning frown.
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Date: 2015-07-03 01:16 pm (UTC)(These circumstances are circumstances that generally happen to other people, as far as Feuilly is concerned. Which has been just fine! He's almost entirely been too busy, too happily wrapped up in a cause that needed all of him, always, and then always a little bit more. But. This is a thing that people do, and he is a person, isn't he? And--)
On the strength of this conviction he lets the subject of linguistics fall, and touches the collar of Harry's shirt with a questioning frown.