"I shall take it without his leave."
"I have been waiting for that.... Once more tell me how you are going to take it?"
"Oh! that is my affair!"
"Is that the proposition recommended to me by General La Fayette?"
"You see it for yourself, the sentence reads clearly enough: 'To General Gérard, to whom we recommend the proposition he has just communicated to us.'"
"Did he not think your suggestion a mad one?"
"I must say, to be quite truthful, that we had just a little discussion about it."
"Did he not tell you that there are twenty chances to one that you will be shot in such an undertaking?"
"I fancy he did express some such opinion."
"In spite of that, he still recommended your proposal to me."