'I was thinking, Sir,' he said to him one day, 'that it would be highly improper for the name of a respectable gentleman like a Renal to appear on the dirty ledger of the librarian.'
– Je pensais, Monsieur, lui dit-il un jour, qu’il y aurait une haute inconvenance à ce que le nom d’un bon gentilhomme tel qu’un Rênal parût sur le sale registre du libraire.