If this goes on, we shall all be ruined in three years, and what will become of the poor people?
[Bravo.] Let us prohibit foreign wood.

I am not speaking for myself, for you could not make a tooth-pick out of all the wood I own.

I am, therefore, perfectly disinterested.

[Good, good.] But here is Pierre, who has a park, and he will keep our fellow-citizens from freezing.

They will no longer be in a state of _dependence_ on the charcoal dealers of the Yonne.