The druggist would formerly have taken good care not to use such an expression, but he was cultivating a gay Parisian style, which he thought in the best taste; and, like his neighbour, Madame Bovary, he questioned the clerk curiously about the customs of the capital; he even talked slang to dazzle the bourgeois, saying bender, crummy, dandy, macaroni, the cheese, cut my stick and "I'll hook it," for "I am going."
L’apothicaire, autrefois, se fût bien gardé d’une telle expression; mais il donnait maintenant dans un genre folâtre et parisien qu’il trouvait du meilleur goût; et, comme madame Bovary, sa voisine, il interrogeait le clerc curieusement sur les moeurs de la capitale, même il parlait argot afin d’éblouir... les bourgeois, disant _turne, bazar, chicard, chicandard, Breda- street, _et _Je me la casse_, pour: Je m’en vais.