"Come, you'll agree to make that caricature now, won't you ?" Bixiou.

"I see plainly, my dear fellow, that you knew all about this affair ten days ago" [looks him in the eye].

"Am I to be under-head-clerk ?" Dutocq.

"On my word of honor, yes, and a thousand-franc fee beside, just as I told you.

You don't know what a service you'll be rendering to powerful personages." Bixiou.