[Enjolras finds himself nodding at the story. He can believe that the matter of even that sum of money for caring for an extra child would make a difference certainly, and it is only too easy to see the downward slope that it would cause. ]

And I assume there was no avenue of pursuing the money with no way to pay the lawyer either.

[he does not know that he considers it the fault of Cosette, or even of her parents, either set of parents, given WHEN that must have been and the situation at the time for many people,if her father's wealth came later, but a matter of the economy and, well, people like his parents who contributed to keeping the sharp divide of money and resources where they were.]

Of course I will not say. Not ever if you do not deem it so.

Marius's Cosette seems lucky when compared to this