"Blackguards! Who?
Rabourdin?
Then you know the news ?" Fleury [rolling his eyes savagely].

"Rabourdin a blackguard! Are you mad, Dutocq?
do you want a ball in your brains to give them weight ?" Dutocq.

"I said nothing against Monsieur Rabourdin; only it has just been told to me in confidence that he has written a paper denouncing all the clerks and officials, and full of facts about their lives; in short, the reason why his friends support him is because he has written this paper against the administration, in which we are all exposed--" Phellion [in a loud voice].

"Monsieur Rabourdin is incapable of--" Bixiou.

"Very proper in you to say so.