"Stay as you are. It's not worth getting you fired at!"
"And what about you, sir!" Lamalou remarked.
"Oh, I'm taboo!"
The other gazed at him. The captain repeated:
"They can't do me any harm to-day!"
He smiled, his moustache bristling slyly. Then, turning to one of his companions:
"Pleased with your N.C.O.'s, Henriot?"
"Very much pleased, sir! Dreher and Guillaumin especially have done remarkably well!..."
"I was sure of it."