p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14.175px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Why up so early, Fanny?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14.175px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Fantine turned around and smiled at her partner, Favourite, then pointed to Cosette who was gulping down breakfast./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14.175px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""The child needed breakfast."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14.175px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Cosette looked up when she heard herself mentioned and both women smiled at her. By now they knew better than to try to touch her unless she touched first. It hurt Fantine to see her child so hurt, but she knew she could do nothing but be a caring mother until Cosette was able to trust her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14.175px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Hey, you should go to bed. I'll watch Cosette," she cut Fantine off before she could protest about Cosette needing someone to watch her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14.175px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""But you must be exhausted also. You still have your makeup on."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14.175px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""And that's exactly why I should watch Cosette. Go to sleep; I'll sleep in the afternoon. Besides we both have a show tonight and we both know that it takes you longer to put on makeup so you should take the afternoon shift."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14.175px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I don't like leaving Cosette all alone with only Mabeuf every night," Fantine said, as Favourite helped her unlace her corset. Mabeuf was an old bookseller that slept in their house every night and in payment watched Cosette while Fantine and Favourite were at work as opera singers./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14.175px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""She likes Mabeuf."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14.175px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I know, but she needs me. Children need their mothers."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14.175px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Listen, Fantine." Favourite sat on their bed, next to her, and took her hands in her own. "It's not your fault. You had no choice. And you couldn't know how awful the Thénardiers were going to be."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14.175px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""But-"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14.175px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Hush, it's not an argument." She kissed her forehead. "Now go to sleep and I'll watch Cosette."/p