"I know what I am doing." "But he is not ready yet," said the principal.

"To do as you advise would be to change all the rules set down for promotion." "Well, what if it does ?" replied the inspector.
"But why should you favor this boy and his family?
They are Corsicans." "I do not care anything about his family," the inspector declared.

"If I put aside the rules in this case, it is not to do the Bonaparte family a favor.

I do not know them.

But I have studied this boy.