Beast, devil, eh?
You've got a free tongue, Grandois; you forgot to say that my father paid the doctor's bill for your whole family when they were taken down with smallpox; and he kept them for weeks afterwards.

You forgot to recall that when he turned you out for being six months behind with your rent and making no effort to pay up! Who was the devil and beast then, Grandois?
Who spat upon his own wife and children then?
You haven't a good memory....

Come, I think your account with my father is squared; and I want you to vote to put my father's son in Parliament, and to put out Barode Barouche, who's been there too long.

Come, come, Grandois, isn't it a bargain?
Your tongue's sharp, but your heart's in the right place--is it a bargain ?" He held out his hand with applause from the crowd, but Grandois was not to be softened.

His anger, however, had behind it some sense of caution, and what Carnac said about the smallpox incident struck him hard.