I said to him, 'My dear sir, you may either take it or leave it.

Let us start from this point: I can do without you and you cannot do without me.

If you don't buy my flour, somebody else will.

I am not at all troubled about it.
But as to having any one here who would be as much master as myself, or perhaps more, never! I am too old to change my customs.' Thereupon the Financial Secretary left.

There! And, besides, they change their Ministry every fortnight.