The Rabouilleuse combated this objection, and proposed that they should fly together to America; but Max, who did not want Flore without her money, and yet did not wish the girl to see the bottom of his heart, insisted on his intention of killing Philippe.
"We have committed a monstrous folly," he said.

"We ought all three to have gone to Paris and spent the winter there; but how could one guess, from the mere sight of that fellow's big carcass, that things would turn out as they have?
The turn of events is enough to make one giddy! I took the colonel for one of those fire-eaters who haven't two ideas in their head; that was the blunder I made.

As I didn't have the sense to double like a hare in the beginning, I'll not be such a coward as to back down before him.

He has lowered me in the estimation of this town, and I cannot get back what I have lost unless I kill him." "Go to America with forty thousand francs.

I'll find a way to get rid of that scoundrel, and join you.