La Bête Humaine (1938)

Julien Carette: Pecqueux

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• Pecqueux : What's for lunch?

  Jacques Lantier : Sardines and cassoulet. Want some?

  Pecqueux : No, that canned food rots the gut. Get a wife, my friend.

  Jacques Lantier : I'm already married to Lison. She's good enough for me.

  Pecqueux : That's right. I forgot. You're married to a locomotive.

• Pecqueux : Philomène is going to be happy.

  Jacques Lantier : That's right, your number two girl. Sauvagnat's sister.

  Pecqueux : Just don't tell him that. He still thinks she's a nice girl.

  Jacques Lantier : And what will your wife do?

  Pecqueux : Victoire? Queen of the nice girls.

• Jacques Lantier : Do you know Mrs. Roubaud, the stationmaster's wife?

  Pecqueux : Séverine?

  Jacques Lantier : Is that her name?

  Pecqueux : Her mother and my wife were friends. They worked together at the Grandmorin mansion. Why? Did you see her somewhere?

  Jacques Lantier : She was on the train just now.

  Pecqueux : An elegant woman. Well-educated. Not my type, but definitely pretty.

• Pecqueux : Love is best early on, before you know each other well, when you're both on your best behavior.

• Pecqueux : Her brother caught us in bed the other night. I barely had time to jump out the window in my shirt. Then he slapped her around. Does that make sense to you? Not to me. She's his sister, not his wife. What's it to him anyway?