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—