If he loses one battle he is done for.

One glass more?
Ah! you make me depart from my usual custom--absolutely done for.

But this time we shall keep our eyes open.

No half measures! We will return to the great methods of 'ninety-three--the Committee of Public Safety, the Law of Suspects, the Revolutionary Tribunal, every damned one of them! and, if it is necessary, a permanent guillotine! To your good health!" So much energy frightened Father Gerard a little; for in spite of his Barbes pipe-bowl he was not a genuine red-hot Republican.

He dared not protest, however, and blushed a little as he thought that the night before an editor had proposed to him to engrave a portrait of the new Empress, very decollete, and showing her famous shoulders, and that he had not said No; for his daughters needed new shoes, and his wife had declared the day before that she had not a gown to put on.
So for several months he had four children--Amedee, Louise, Maria, and little Rose Combarieu--to make a racket in his apartment.