But a serious question presents itself.

Is that dinner to include the clerks who are dismissed ?" Poiret.

"And those who retire ?" Bixiou.

"Not that I care, for it isn't I who pay." [General stupefaction.] "Baudoyer is appointed.

I think I already hear him calling Laurent" [mimicking Baudoyer], "Laurent! lock up my hair-shirt, and my scourge." [They all roar with laughter.] "Yes, yes, he laughs well who laughs last.