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They went away.
As they went, Montparnasse muttered:—
‘Never mind! if they had wanted, I’d have cut her
t hroat.’
Babet responded
‘I wouldn’t. I don’t hit a lady.’
At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the
following enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:—
‘Where shall we go to sleep to-night?’
‘Under Pantin [Paris].’
‘Have you the key to the gate, Thenardier?’
‘Pa rd i.’
Eponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them
retreat by the road by which they had come. She rose and
began to creep after them along the walls and the houses.
She followed them thus as far as the boulevard.
There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into
the gloom, where they appeared to melt away.