"And I. It really quite affected me to see him arrested and led away by the police. I could not eat any breakfast; but I have been rewarded by not having to eat the daily mess doled out by Mother Séraphin, for, as the song goes:
'To eat the allowance of old Séraphin,
One must have a twist indeed.'"
"Capital! why, Chalamel, you are beginning your poetry already."
"I demand Chalamel's head!"
"Folly apart, it is very terrible for poor Germain."
"Seventeen thousand francs (680l.) is a lump of money!"
"I believe you!"
"And yet, for the fifteen months that Germain has been cashier, he was never a farthing deficient in making up his books."
"I think the governor was wrong to arrest Germain, for the poor fellow swore that he had only taken thirteen hundred francs (52l.) in gold, and that, moreover, he brought back the thirteen hundred francs this morning, to return them to the money-chest, at the very moment when our master sent for the police."
"Ah, that's the bore of people of such ferocious honesty as our governor, they have no pity!"