Éponine noticed, but not with any alarm; that was a familiar enough sight to her, as well.
"It's stupid, really. What's the use of this, making us see things?"
She winced when she heard herself cry out and her father say, "There, that's more like it. Now get rid of those shoes; you'll get more if your feet look like they're about to freeze right off." She didn't have to look to remember how he'd given her a black eye and sent her out to beg.
Re: An Aged Door
Date: 2013-04-12 01:29 am (UTC)"It's stupid, really. What's the use of this, making us see things?"
She winced when she heard herself cry out and her father say, "There, that's more like it. Now get rid of those shoes; you'll get more if your feet look like they're about to freeze right off." She didn't have to look to remember how he'd given her a black eye and sent her out to beg.