"Well, then it was you, Dutocq!" [Dutocq made a vehement gesture of denial.] "Oh! very good, then it was nobody.

Every one in this office knew his intellect was herculean.

Well, you were right.

He ended, as I have said, like the great man that he was." Desroys [impatiently].

"Pray what did he do that was so great?
he had the weakness to confess himself." Bixiou.