Do you want any money ?" added Cerizet, pulling a hundred francs out of his trousers' pocket.

"There it is; it won't look amiss." And he laid the pile on the chimney-piece.
"And now," said Dutocq, "we had better get out through the bedroom." "Well, good-bye," said Theodose, opening a hidden door which communicated from the study to the bedroom.

"Come in, Monsieur Thuillier," he called out to the beau of the Empire.
When he saw him safely in the study he went to let out his two associates through the bedroom and kitchen into the courtyard.
"In six months," said Cerizet, "you'll have married Celeste and got your foot into the stirrup.

You are lucky, you are, not to have sat, like me, in the prisoners' dock.

I've been there twice: once in 1825, for 'subversive articles' which I never wrote, and the second time for receiving the profits of a joint-stock company which had slipped through my fingers! Come, let's warm this thing up! Sac-a-papier! Dutocq and I are sorely in need of that twenty-five thousand francs.