Have you really got something to do ?" "My dear fellow, a superb job that Medicis got me.

I am painting at the Ave Maria barracks.

Eight grenadiers have ordered their portraits at six francs a head taken all round, likenesses guaranteed for a year, like a watch.

I hope to get the whole regiment.

I had the idea, on my own part, of decking out Musette when Medicis pays me, for it is with him I do business and not my models." "As to me," observed Schaunard carelessly, "although it may not look like it, I have two hundred francs lying idle." "The deuce, let us stir them up," said Rodolphe.
"In two or three days I count on drawing them," replied Schaunard.