Have you thought about him? And that's when I said he would not have stood for it....

Phillipe Huron: Have you thought about him?
Auguste Dupin: And that's when I said he would not have stood for it. Suppose that unlike me,
Auguste Dupin: [Clearing his throat] he would not have allowed himself to be pensioned off without a battle.
Phillipe Huron: My thought precisely. I'm sorry, Gust.
Auguste Dupin: Don't feel badly. I often wonder why I accepted it without a fight. I've seemed to have lost all stamina - all forcefulness. Ted, my boy, you don't know what it's like not having a job without work.
Auguste Dupin: [Angrily] The humiliation! The uselessness! The fear of not having a roof over your family's head! And the rage! The absolutte powerless rage!
Auguste Dupin: [He sees his daughter enters the room and composes himself] Excuse me