—You are jesting, my dear Mr. Collector; have I a vote in the legislative halls?
—Whom did you support for Deputy?
—An excellent General, who will be a Marshal presently, if God spares his life.
—On what does this excellent General live?
—My hogsheads, I presume.
—And what would happen were he to vote for a reduction of the army and your military establishment?
—Instead of being made a Marshal, he would be retired.
—Do you now understand that yourself?
—Let us pass to the fifth hogshead, I beg of you.
—That goes to Algeria.