Part 25 (1/2)
L You have secured twenty hogsheads of wine?
J Yes, with ive sheads out of twenty! Good heavens! You want to ruin me If you please, what do you propose to do with theiven to the creditors of the State When one has debts, the least one can do is to pay the interest
--Where did the principal go?
--It would take too long to tell A part of it was once upon a ties, which made the finest smoke in the world; with another partravaged it Then, when these expenses brought the ene ood do I get fro:
How proud a a Frenchman When I behold the triu to my heirs an estate burdened with a perpetual rent Still one must pay what he owes, no matter how foolish a use shead, but the five others?
--One is required to pay for public services, the civil list, the judges who decree the restitution of the bit of land your neighbor wants to appropriate, the policemen who drive away robbers while you sleep, theto the city, the priest who baptizes your children, the teacher who educates the
--Certainly, service for service There is nothing to say against that
I had rather ain directly with my priest, but I do not insist on this So shead This leaves four, however
--Do you believe that tould be too much for your share of the army and navy expenses?
--Alas, it is little compared hat they have cost me already They have taken from me two sons whom I tenderly loved
--The balance of power in Europe must be maintained
--Well, my God! the balance of poould be the same if these forces were every where reduced a half or three-quarters We should save our children and our money All that is needed is to understand it
--Yes, but they do not understand it
--That is what amazes me For every one suffers from it
--You wished it so, Jacques Bonho, islative halls?
--Whom did you support for Deputy?
--An excellent General, ill be a Marshal presently, if God spares his life
--On what does this excellent General live?
--My hogsheads, I presume
--And ould happen were he to vote for a reduction of the ar made a Marshal, he would be retired