Lafouraille
To Inez.
Vautrin
He wrote a lot of rubbish, I'll warrant.
Lafouraille
A pack of lies and absurdities.
Vautrin (to Joseph)
Hello there! You—the honest man.
Buteux (leading Joseph to Vautrin)
You had better explain things to the master, as he desires.
Joseph It seems to me that I am not unreasonable to ask what risk I am to run, and what profit is to accrue to me.
Vautrin Time is short, speech long, let us employ the former and drop the latter. There are two lives in peril, that of a man I am interested in, and that of a musketeer which I consider useless: we are going to crush him.
Joseph What! Do you mean monsieur the marquis? I will have nothing to do with it.
Lafouraille
You have no say in the matter of your consent.
Buteux
We have captured him. Look you, my friend, when the wine is drawn—