Don't you see how Bongrand is sprinkling him with advice ?" said Goupil, slipping an idea of retaliation into Massin's mind.

"But you had better go easy with your chief; he's a clever old fellow; he might use his influence with your uncle and persuade him not to leave everything to the church." "Pooh! we sha'n't die of it," said Minoret-Levrault, opening his enormous snuff-box.
"You won't live of it, either," said Goupil, making the two women tremble.

More quick-witted than their husbands, they saw the privations this loss of inheritance (so long counted on for many comforts) would be to them.

"However," added Goupil, "we'll drown this little grief in floods of champagne in honor of Desire!--sha'n't we, old fellow ?" he cried, tapping the stomach of the giant, and inviting himself to the feast for fear he should be left out..