You are the cause of all my misfortunes!
For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live on all my life!
A girl who would have made up to me for everything that I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual row, and where, like a fool, I ate up my last farthing!
Oh!
I wish all the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! Well, never mind!
Say, now!
You must have thought me ridiculous when you went off with the Lark!
You had your cudgel in the forest. You were the stronger.
Revenge.
I''m the one to hold the trumps to-day! You''re in a sorry case, my good fellow!
Oh, but I can laugh!
Really, I laugh!
Didn''t he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was Fabantou, that I had played comedy with Mamselle Mars, with Mamselle Muche, that my landlord insisted on being paid tomorrow, the 4th of February, and he didn''t even notice that the 8th of January, and not the 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out!
Absurd idiot! And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me!
Scoundrel! He hadn''t the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs!