... Eponine simply gave Gavroche a look, looking down at him pointedly, her eyebrows raised. "I don't believe that for an instant, not if you're still the Gavroche I know." She bumped her head against his shoulder affectionately. "But at least there are these machines." They sounded wonderful, truthfully.

So he thought she was pretty! Eponine beamed. "Clever's always the most important thing in a girl, Gavroche. Don't let anyone fool you." The world would tell him beauty, but she'd set him right.