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Original Text:
Un bon mari.
Total 27 f. 50 c. C’est bien ! vous porterez cette note à ma femme qui vous soldera.. – Est-il heureux ce gueux de macaire, sa femme paye ses dettes !. – Oui, j’ai une excellente femme qui travaille comme un nègre, se prive de tout et me sacrifiant sa vie… une femme qui m’adore ! aussi je ne suis pas ingrat, elle a déjà huit enfans je veux qu’elle en ait douze.. – Bertrand, en v’la d’une heureuse !!!

Translation:
A good husband.
- A total of 27 Fr. 50 Cts.
- Very good. Take the bill to my wife who'll pay you...
- (this right beggar Macaire isn't half content to have a wife to pay his debts!)...
- Yes, I've an excellent wife who works like a slave, deprives herself of everything, who sacrifices her life for me... a wife who adores me. But I'm not ungrateful. She already has eight children and I'd like her to have twelve...
- (Bertrand) There's a happy woman!!!