“Not a candlestick on the mantel!”
“The ladies will give us one.”
“Not even a jar of water.”
“Perhaps it isn’t the custom in the country.”
“Well! it’s a very clean custom that don’t allow a person to wash his hands! In fact, monsieur, we lack everything here.”
“We shall lack nothing if we ask the ladies for it.”
“The ladies! the ladies!”
“And the low rent, Bertrand—don’t you take that into account?”
“If there wasn’t anybody but the old landlady in the house, you wouldn’t have been tempted to come here to live.”
“That may be; but if I can enjoy the company of a pretty woman, and at the same time reduce my expenses, it seems to me, Bertrand, that you can’t object to that.”