"Oh. You will really not tell her? And you don't want my money for it?"
Well, that makes a change. Eponine pockets the wallet quickly. She needs every cent she can lay her fingers on.
"You don't have to, M'sieur. Don't worry about me. I don't mind the darkness. I like it when the streets are not full of people and I can just walk and think and..."
She gives another laugh, masking her half formed word -'dream'. It wouldn't do to reveal that much.
"You know, at home, I would walk out at night always. Sometimes I wouldn't come home for days and days. I would just sleep in a ditch. It wasn't safe there, either, but it was safer than here. There are only human monsters in Paris. And me, I am one of them."
She pauses then. "I think the only person who will care when I have dirty feet is Hattie. I mean, my lady. She'll shout when she sees me without shoes. Though..."
She can go to the shops now; smash a window. Nick some boots. She hates even thinking it. But she needs the shoes or else Hattie will go on at her again.
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Well, that makes a change. Eponine pockets the wallet quickly. She needs every cent she can lay her fingers on.
"You don't have to, M'sieur. Don't worry about me. I don't mind the darkness. I like it when the streets are not full of people and I can just walk and think and..."
She gives another laugh, masking her half formed word -'dream'. It wouldn't do to reveal that much.
"You know, at home, I would walk out at night always. Sometimes I wouldn't come home for days and days. I would just sleep in a ditch. It wasn't safe there, either, but it was safer than here. There are only human monsters in Paris. And me, I am one of them."
She pauses then. "I think the only person who will care when I have dirty feet is Hattie. I mean, my lady. She'll shout when she sees me without shoes. Though..."
She can go to the shops now; smash a window. Nick some boots. She hates even thinking it. But she needs the shoes or else Hattie will go on at her again.