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Original Text:
UN HOMME SAUVÉ MALGRÉ LUI.
- Mais puisque je vous dis que je sais nager et que je me serais bien tiré de l'eau sans monsieur!....
- Ça ne fait rien... la loi est positive... vous devez payer vingt cinq francs à votre sauveur... par exemple, s'il vous avait sauvé mort vous ne lui auriez payé qu quinze francs!....

Translation:
A MAN SAVED AGAINST HIS WILL.
- But I am telling you that I know how to swim and I could have pulled myself out of the water without the help of this gentleman!
- That makes no difference.... the law is quite clear... you must pay 25 Francs to your rescuer.... for example, if you had been dead, you would only have had to pay him 15 Francs.