Settle yourself there as if you mean to stay; carry off the twenty thousand francs in gold which the old fellow has got in his drawer.

If I bring him to you in Vatan, you are to refuse to come back here unless he signs the power of attorney.

As soon as we get it I'll slip off to Paris, while you're returning to Issoudun.

When Jean-Jacques gets back from his walk and finds you gone, he'll go beside himself, and want to follow you.

Well! when he does, I'll give him a talking to.".