"Yes." Dutocq.

"Then come home with me; for I must put the document into safe keeping." Bixiou.

"You go first alone." [Re-enters the bureau Rabourdin.] "What Dutocq told you is really all true, word of honor! It seems that Monsieur Rabourdin has written and sent in very unflattering descriptions of the clerks whom he wants to 'reform.' That's the real reason why his secret friends wish him appointed.

Well, well; we live in days when nothing astonishes me" [flings his cloak about him like Talma, and declaims]:-- "Thou who has seen the fall of grand, illustrious heads, Why thus amazed, insensate that thou art, to find a man like Rabourdin employing such means?
Baudoyer is too much of a fool to know how to use them.

Accept my congratulations, gentlemen; either way you are under a most illustrious chief" [goes off].
Poiret.