ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 19: Macaire inheritor-philanthropist. －You see, Bertrand, my wife is dead, my rights to the inheritance are contestable; I'll offer a third of it to the poor, on condition that they immediately advance me the rest... they'll never touch a brass farthing!... that's how I manipulate legacies!! －Well done, dear fellow! If you don't pick up the Manthyon prize, you'll have been robbed!

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 8: Dramatic farce. Steady on! －Steady on!... don't raise the curtain, I'm not performing... －(The director, hastening, frightened) You're joking, my dear Macaire, you're joking, aren't you? －Not at all, not at all... I won't act... －You won’t play a similar trick at the theatre, on the author, on your poor comrades... －Brrrrt! you don't keep to your engagements, [so] I break mine, give me the forfeit... －I don't keep to my engagements!! －No, you should pay me ready cash, and you owe me... －What ? －You owe me 75 centimes

Caricaturana 33: Robert-Macaire the Journalist: I'm bringing you an article about the new law. I've slated it in a joking way, you see! －What are you thinking of, Mister Macaire, we shouldn't be attacking that law, we should defend it. － Ah,indeed, indeed, I'll rework it and make a frothy article in favour of the aforesaid law

Caricaturana 80: Robert Macaire shareholder: But Mr.Macaire, when I distributed these dividends, you knew that they were taken on the capital? －What does it matter! you didn't have the right to distribute them, you should refund them to us. －Refund them to you!!! but you accepted them, it's up to you to refund them! －You didn't have the right to distribute them to us, that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it, you should pay them back to us, that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it

PARISIAN SKETCHES 33: － How late you are arriving at the Stock-Exchange... I'll warrant you've had a windfall?... scoundrel!... － What do you expect!... I'll settle down..., when I get old!..

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 18: The way in which you go on one can clearly see that money means nothing to you! if I left you to your own devices, my money would soon be squandered... －Bah! father, it's not for yourself that you accumulate money... －Do you think perhaps it is for you, no, no, with the kind of life you lead I will live longer than you... －My dear father, you only have unpleasant things to say to me..

NEWS 53: AFTER FLORIAN I'll walk for you and you'll see for me

Conjugal Manners 38: ﾐﾐ Oh! You think your wife doesn't look after you well enough, you rogue; when you spend everything, scoundrel!...Well, I'll make myself kiss-curls, rascal!... and I'll buy bonnets... and I'll make you eat corks, rascal... ﾐﾐ My angel, I'm wrong, you are a good housewife...but you're breaking everything

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 11: Again my creditors, always my creditors... it's em... thing!... What do those animals want form me?... would that they'd leave me in peace!... Me, do I ask anything of them

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 17: Man in naluratibus [sic]. Philosophy, my dear Bertrand, explains very well our two characters from our physiques... you are weakness, I am strength... to you is cunning, to me courage... you are the ivy and I the oak, without me the slightest breeze from the police will plunge you into a torrent of misfortune... do not leave me and inscribe upon your arms: I die or I cling

Childish Acts 6: －Well, what about my glass... if I don't have my glass I'll tell Mummy that you've been drinking again with that lanky fellow whom she told you not to go about with!..

Conjugal Manners 26: Eh, Eh! little rascal, you will make brats, you already have the eyes of a scoundrel! You'll be like your father

PASTORALS 32: －Thief of a cock-chafer... so it's you who's eating away all my property... you'll perish by my hand alone!..

PASTORALS 22: －I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 16: Sirs, crushed under the weight of misfortune, ruined, laid bare, I lost my head, I abandoned all that was dear to me, my motherrrland, my creditors, the whole paraphernalia... here am I on foreign soil... sheltered from my persecutors, but ready for the greatest sacrifices to preserve intact the name of Macaire. In consequence, I offer you 2 per cent payable in ten years;... by refusing, you can only lose hopes of the above-mentioned 2 per cent and the estmation of your servant / Macaire

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 27: COUNTRY ACTORS: －Yes,my dear fellow,yes the barbarians hissed at me in Cinna;and what's more you've seen me in Cinna! －Yes, I flatter myself that I've seen you, but don't you see that the provincials are hard up; open at the Français, go and find Mr.J.J.,get yourself looked after, ask for one hundred thousand francs per year and they'll applaud you...but you want success with 1500F[rancs] salaries and at Beauvais...greenhorn!

MISADVENTURES AND DISAPPOINTMENT OF MR.GOGO 4: But my dear Gogo, you're joking, how can you leave in your business the three thousand francs my daughter brings you, and the two hundred thousand francs for which you are indebted to her?... do you consider that? to expose the fortune of my child to the risks of commerce!... and if you don't succeed,... if you die, my daughter will then be ruined?... not so, not so, if you please! you're going to marry according to dowry regulations, to put into a good mortgage,... Devil take it! I should foresee a separation, today you're a friend, tomorrow you're not, you see it all the time

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 19: (Aside)God! my poor boy how ugly you are! (Aloud) My respects to your wife. (Aside) When you've got a face like yours, you shouldn't go out during the day

IN CHINA 19: －Tchinn-Tchinn..., you bring me good news!... I accord you the highest honour of kissing the august dust of my august shoes!..

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 14: My dear fellow, may I have the pleasure of your lending me 15 frcs.[francs].－Willingly, but I've only got ten. －Deuce!...deuce!... give them to me anyway, you can owe me five

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