I am positively determined not to remain twenty-four hours longer on the gridiron where you have got me.

Cheat Dutocq if you will; I am utterly indifferent to that; but I intend that you and I shall come to an understanding.

It is a fortune that I have paid you, twenty-five thousand francs, and you must have earned ten thousand more in your business; it is enough to make you an honest man.

Cerizet, if you will leave me in peace, if you won't prevent my marriage with Mademoiselle Colleville, I shall certainly be king's attorney-general, or something of that kind in Paris.

You can't do better than make sure of an influence in that sphere." "Here are my conditions; and they won't allow of discussion; you can take them or leave them.