"Everyone is afraid of getting a thrashing from old Müller! Have I given a thrashing to anyone at least once in my life, huh? I'm a good old man about whom rumors spread. Your handsome boss (Schellenberg) is a thousand times angrier than me. He just learned in his universities to smile and speak French. And I still don’t know how to eat an apple — cut it, or eat it the way it is customary at my home: the whole, with bones."