"And if I do not immediately send you packing, you may be very sure it is for your mother's sake and not for your own."
"I am fully aware of that, and I am grateful to you on my mother's account."
"Very well, take your office to yourself, then; but I give you warning that...."
"You will give me double the work of any other clerk?"
"Exactly so."
"It will be unjust, that is all; but, since I am not the stronger, I shall submit."
"Unjust! unjust!" shrieked M. Deviolaine. "I would have you know that I have never done an unjust thing in my life."
"It would seem there is a beginning for everything."
"Did you ever see—oh, did you ever see such a young rip!" continued M. Deviolaine, as he paced up and down his office,—"did you ever see! did you ever see!..."
Then, turning to me again, he said—