She drops the pen immediately, and to her annoyance, her face flushes.
"I'm not a thief and you don't have no right to say I am. Never have I stolen from you."
She might go completely out of her way to do so now though.
"Anyway, it's not nonsense. He LIKED me. He was teaching me, Madame, as equals, and I was helping him in sector ten because he did not know where to avoid. Me, I do. You stay away from the bars and the cafes and those dormitories and you are safe. But he did not know and he would get his throat slit. He did like me. He said I was pretty. The prettiest girl in sector ten, he said. And one of the nicest girls he knows."
He didn't say any of that; Eponine's lying through her teeth, but she doesn't care. It's funny to see Hattie's reaction - and it's always nice to give herself compliments.
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"I'm not a thief and you don't have no right to say I am. Never have I stolen from you."
She might go completely out of her way to do so now though.
"Anyway, it's not nonsense. He LIKED me. He was teaching me, Madame, as equals, and I was helping him in sector ten because he did not know where to avoid. Me, I do. You stay away from the bars and the cafes and those dormitories and you are safe. But he did not know and he would get his throat slit. He did like me. He said I was pretty. The prettiest girl in sector ten, he said. And one of the nicest girls he knows."
He didn't say any of that; Eponine's lying through her teeth, but she doesn't care. It's funny to see Hattie's reaction - and it's always nice to give herself compliments.