"But they ought to think twice before they ruin a poor young fellow, who, up to this time, has behaved with strict honesty."
"M. Ferrand said he did it for an example."
"Example? What? It is none to the honest, and the dishonest know well enough what they expose themselves to if they are found out in any delinquencies."
"Our house seems to produce lots of jobs for the police officers."
"What do you mean?"
"Why, this morning there was poor little Louise, and now poor Germain."
"I confess that Germain's affair was not quite clear to me."
"But he confessed?"
"He confessed that he had taken thirteen hundred francs, certainly; but he declared most vehemently that he had not taken the other fifteen thousand francs in bank-notes, and the other seven hundred francs which are short in the strong box."
"True; and, if he confessed one thing, why shouldn't he confess another?"