( He doesn't have to. Javert bends his knees, lowering himself so that he's at eye-level with him. Perhaps it isn't his fault, as Soldat says, but Javert still feels badly for it all the same. )
Would you allow me to see it?
( He asks, because the compulsion to leave an offering is difficult to resist when he's hovering so close. Javert doesn't have any coins left, which is what he gave as a gift last time, useless as they were to him, but he does have bullets and a tie pin. Even that doesn't seem like enough, however, for what he may see. )
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Would you allow me to see it?
( He asks, because the compulsion to leave an offering is difficult to resist when he's hovering so close. Javert doesn't have any coins left, which is what he gave as a gift last time, useless as they were to him, but he does have bullets and a tie pin. Even that doesn't seem like enough, however, for what he may see. )