– D’abord la police sait mieux que toi quel peut être mon vrai nom ; mais si tu t’avises de me dénoncer, si tu as cette infamie, lui dit-il d’un grand sérieux, Ludovic te parlera, et ce n’est pas six coups de couteau que recevra ta vieille carcasse, mais deux douzaines, et tu seras pour six mois à l’hôpital, et sans tabac.
"In the first place, the police know better than you what my real name may be; but if you take it into your head to denounce me, if you do anything so infamous," he said to her with great seriousness, "Lodovico shall talk to you, and it is not six slashes with the knife that your old carcass shall get, but two dozen, and you will be six months in hospital, and no tobacco."