Moves me to tears. It seems too shocking.

Get back my money? Pas de chance!

And then he is the pride of France!

I raged, I know, four years ago,

Against those Panama projectors.

The law seemed slack, inquiry slow;

How I denounced them, the Directors,

Including him—in some vague fashion;

But then—Bonhomme was in a passion!

And now to see the gendarme's hand—