She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you.She essayed to smile again and expired.
~ Victor Hugo
