"Disgusting business! I don't see why we should be treated like slaves because the government gives us four francs and sixty-five centimes a day." Fleury [entering].

"Down with Baudoyer! hurrah for Rabourdin!--that's the cry in the division." Chazelle [getting more and more angry].

"Baudoyer can turn off me if he likes, I sha'n't care.

In Paris there are a thousand ways of earning five francs a day; why, I could earn that at the Palais de Justice, copying briefs for the lawyers." Paulmier [still prodding him].

"It is very easy to say that; but a government place is a government place, and that plucky Colleville, who works like a galley-slave outside of this office, and who could earn, if he lost his appointment, more than his salary, prefers to keep his place.