ne-er-do-wells

It__ splendid how much at home we feel at Pignol__. A tacit complicity at every moment prevails among the regulars here. A process of self-selection operates: starving crooks, thirsty whores, witless grasses working for low-grade cops, middle- class types a bit too willing to conform (leaving aside the pound of black-market meat and the camembert without ration tickets) - all feel too ill at ease here. They__e only got to stay away. Along with anyone else who doesn__ meet the requirements of this establishment: first and foremost, to keep your trap shut. The war? Past history. The Krauts? Don__ know any. Russia? Change at Reaumur. The police? There was a time when they were needed for directing the traffic. At Pignol__, silence constitutes the most important, most difficult and lengthiest induction ordeal.After that, it__ a matter of imponderables. It works according to the rule of three: the people who don__ get along with the people that I get along with are people I can__ get along with. Syllogisms, of course. Now clear out!