Plate 28: Conscript replacement agency, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires
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-There's merchandise an' merchandise! You wan' a common replacement, that'll cost yer only 800 F., but I warn yer, they're all swindlers, crooks who don't stay with their regiment, who skedaddle at the first opportunity and who 'ave ter be retrieved.... Would yer like ter make it 1'500 F., take that speciment, it ain't handsome but it's of good composition and it's got papers... As many as yer like an' it don't flinch from six years' service.
- Bertrand (aside): You c'n count on it, civilian!"
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