"I have met her. She is rooming with my friend Meg." I'm not entirely certain of how to describe Meg either. A friend, yes, but I must be careful there.
"I have seen her twice now, the first time to help her gather apples that grow wild. There are many different foods and herbs--some medicinal--that grow in the woods around the village." So Eponine might be interested in that. "She offered to make pie in thanks. I required none but don't generally refuse food. This became dinner with Meg and another young man."
Not Fantine and I alone, certainly.
"I found her pretty, yes. I did not find her stupid or flighty, though she was not raised to consider that a woman might have sense, I don't think. She would agree with you and say that she is stupid." I do not think she is. "She could not study to be a doctor, but I would not term her stupid."
I know so little of women of my own time and place. This is foreign to me. I know jealousy, and anger, and the simply unfair way that things can be. Eponine is ruled more by her head, and will remember it once the fire cools.
"She originally spoke to me of making a pie, and that with the apples. I was not her guest in that sense." Not like that. "The other man there was someone she met the day he arrived. He had no one, as she knew few people here."
But it does make it seem...
"There is no reason to hate her. Her life has held pain in it even as yours has." It is likely too soon for that comparison. "If it is because of Cosette that you hate her, then you might wish to stop and think that Fantine was gone before Marius met Cosette.
"That, and I would put more blame on him than any of the ladies involved in this." He is the one who rejected Eponine, no one else.
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"Come in. Have you met her? Is she pretty and flighty and stupid like her daughter?"
There was pain in her words, but something else as well. Guilt, maybe.
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"I have met her. She is rooming with my friend Meg." I'm not entirely certain of how to describe Meg either. A friend, yes, but I must be careful there.
"I have seen her twice now, the first time to help her gather apples that grow wild. There are many different foods and herbs--some medicinal--that grow in the woods around the village." So Eponine might be interested in that. "She offered to make pie in thanks. I required none but don't generally refuse food. This became dinner with Meg and another young man."
Not Fantine and I alone, certainly.
"I found her pretty, yes. I did not find her stupid or flighty, though she was not raised to consider that a woman might have sense, I don't think. She would agree with you and say that she is stupid." I do not think she is. "She could not study to be a doctor, but I would not term her stupid."
She is ignorant, but that can be fixed.
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"She's newer here than I am, and she's already having dinner parties with multiple men? Dammit! What the hell is wrong with me?"
She stood, agitated, and began pacing.
"I hate her. I've never even met her, and I hate her."
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"She originally spoke to me of making a pie, and that with the apples. I was not her guest in that sense." Not like that. "The other man there was someone she met the day he arrived. He had no one, as she knew few people here."
But it does make it seem...
"There is no reason to hate her. Her life has held pain in it even as yours has." It is likely too soon for that comparison. "If it is because of Cosette that you hate her, then you might wish to stop and think that Fantine was gone before Marius met Cosette.
"That, and I would put more blame on him than any of the ladies involved in this." He is the one who rejected Eponine, no one else.
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