38/50 But, after all, French administration is amazingly useful." Baudoyer. "If only to maintain the paper and stamp industries! Suppose it is rather fussy and provoking, like all good housekeepers,--it can at any moment render an account of its disbursements. Where is the merchant who would not gladly give five per cent of his entire capital if he could insure himself against /leakage/ ?" The Deputy [a manufacturer]. "The manufacturing interests of all nations would joyfully unite against that evil genius of theirs called leakage." Des Lupeaulx. |