Du Bruel, just keep your eye on the consequences.

Rabourdin would be a mean-spirited creature to stay under Baudoyer; he will send in his registration, and that will give us two places.

You can be head of the bureau and take me for under-head-clerk.

We will make vaudevilles together, and I'll fag at your work in the office." Du Bruel [smiling].

"Dear me, I never thought of that.