human
Why did you steal this bread? repeated the magistrate, more severely than before.
gpt
Come, answer; and speak up so that you can be heard.
human
That is not true; you haven't the face of one who is starving; at all events, if you were hungry, you should have gone to a baker's shop and asked for bread; you wouldn't have been refused. But we know your ways; you stole this loaf of bread to sell again, and get three or four sous to gamble with on the boulevard or at the barrier; isn't that the truth?
gpt
Are your parents living?
human
I dunno.
gpt
What! you don't know whether you have a father and mother?
human
I ain't got no father, I don't think.
gpt
And your mother?
human
She sells fried potatoes.
gpt
Isn't she able to pay for your apprenticeship to some trade?
human
I don't want to work.
gpt
You prefer to steal! you hope to be imprisoned with other little rascals of your sort, with whom you will become hopelessly bad. Where does your mother live?
human
I won't tell you; I don't want her to claim me; I won't go back to her!
gpt
Then you will be taken to the préfecture, and from there to a house where you'll have to work.