As a result of this, when he had finished his meal, he felt some slight misgivings, and asked his wife if it were necessary to follow up the insurrection that Macquart was preparing.
"Nobody will run us down now," said he.

"You should have seen those gentlemen of the new town, how they bowed to me! It seems to me quite unnecessary now to kill anybody--eh?
What do you think?
We shall feather our nest without that." "Ah! what a nerveless fellow you are!" Felicite cried angrily.

"It was your own idea to do it, and now you back out! I tell you that you'll never do anything without me! Go then, go your own way.

Do you think the Republicans would spare you if they got hold of you ?" Rougon went back to the town-hall, and prepared for the ambush.

Granoux was very useful to him.