les miserables movie meme | nine characters [1/9]

“Marius at this time was a handsome young man with thick, very dark hair, a high, intelligent forehead, wide, sensitive nostrils, a frank, composed bearing and an expression that was once high-minded, thoughtful, and ingenuous. His face, of which all the contours were rounded but still firm, had something of that German mildness that has invaded the French physiognomy by way of Allsace and Lorraine, and the absence of angles that set the Sicambri apart from the Romans, distinguishing the race of the lion and the race of the eagle. He had reached the time of life when the mind of a young man given to reflection is divided in almost equal proportions between depth and innocence. […] At the time of his utmost poverty he had seen girls look round at him as he passed and had fled from them in despair, believing that they were laughing at his shabby clothes, whereas the truth was that they were attracted by his good looks.”