"Here /you/ are, pere Saillard.
Listen" [reads]:-- "Saillard .-- The office of cashier to be suppressed in all the ministries; their accounts to be kept in future at the Treasury.
Saillard is rich and does not need a pension.
"Do you want to hear about your son-in-law ?" [Turns over the leaves.] "Here he is" [reads]:-- "Baudoyer .-- Utterly incapable.

To be thanked and dismissed.

Rich; does not need a pension.
"And here's for Godard" [reads]:-- "Godard .-- Should be dismissed; pension one-third of his present salary.
"In short, here we all are.

Listen to what I am" [reads]: "An artist who might be employed by the civil list, at the Opera, or the Menus-Plaisirs, or the Museum.

Great deal of capacity, little self-respect, no application,--a restless spirit.