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"It's in Eponine's handwriting. The devil!" He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice: "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" "Without cutting that man's throat?" asked, the Thenardier woman. "We haven't the time." "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille.
"Eponine's intelligence, fine disposition, and sociability led to her being elevated by common consent to the dignity of a person, for reason, superior instinct, plainly governed her conduct. That dignity conferred on her the right to eat at table like a person, and not in a corner on the floor, from a saucer, like an animal.
She proceeded a dozen paces and then halted once more; Marius joined her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him: "By the way, you know that you promised me something?" Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the five francs intended for Thenardier the father. He took them and laid them in Eponine's hand.
The fatigue of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death and send her a final farewell, and to save from the impending catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Eponine's brother and Thenardier's son.
Isn't a person allowed to sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's nothing to be done here. But embrace me, my good little father! It's a long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" Thenardier tried to disentangle himself from Eponine's arms, and grumbled: "That's good. You've embraced me.
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