- Benoit: [Benoit and his uncle Antoine try to recover a casket that has fallen off their sleigh. Antoine is in a drunken state] Don't let go!
- Uncle Antoine: I can't, Benoit. Sometimes you just can't.
- Benoit: Yes, you can! My arm's in a cast and I can do it. We're almost there. Don't give up. You can do it.
- Uncle Antoine: [Dejectedly, and in a drunken stupor] What am I doing here, Benoit? I'm not happy. I'm not made for the country. I hate it here. I wanted to buy a hotel in the States. Your aunt wouldn't let me. She says no to everything. I'm afraid of corpses. I've been afraid of corpses for 30 years! I work for everybody. Your aunt never gave me a child. I have to take care of other peoples' children. I raise Carmen and you. Haven't I done all I could for you?
- Benoit: Drunkard.
- [Uncle Antoine breaks down, sobbing. Benoit looks at him with contempt]
- Benoit: Drunkard!
- [Sobbing continues]
- Jos Poulin: To hell with them all! The English, Euclid, the undertaker, the priest, the boss, the whole gang. I'm getting the hell out.
- Jos Poulin: Hello, kids. Listen... I'm going up to the logging camp. Be good to your mother. Try to give her a hand. I've gotta go. I'm fed up with the mine. It's different up there. Peace and quiet. The woods, the snow. No boss to get on your back.
- Aunt Cecile: I can't find the figures for the nativity.
- Uncle Antoine: Careful with the Virgin Mary. She's touchy.
- Aunt Cecile: Where's Baby Jesus?
- Uncle Antoine: Here comes the Holy Spirit. He'll know.
- [Fernand walks in]
- Aunt Cecile: [Carmen is scattering fake snow over the nativity scene] No, don't put snow on yet, sweetheart. Wait till Baby Jesus is in place. First I place St. Joseph.
- Aunt Cecile: Now for the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus in the center. The nativity scene is so beautiful this year.
- Carmen: Jesus doesn't look too good.
- Aunt Cecile: No, he doesn't. He had an accident. We dropped him. But he's so small, it won't show.
- Maurice: Benoit... did you you see who just went upstairs? Alexandrine! She's gonna try on her new corset. Let's go watch. You coming?
- Aunt Cecile: Your corset came in yesterday. It's really beautiful. You'll see.
- Alexandrine: It's hot in here.
- Aunt Cecile: Give me your coat.
- Alexandrine: [Trying on her new corset] I hope it's the same one I saw in the catalog.
- Carmen: The exact same one. There's a black lace rose with pink lining on the front and little swirls on the hips. Very pretty.
- Benoit: Uncle! Uncle! Uncle! Uncle! Uncle, wake up! Wake up! We lost the body. We've got to get it. We lost the body! We've got to get it!
- Uncle Antoine: Just can't mind your own business, can you? You look for trouble and drag everyone else along.
- Fernand, Clerk: I'd like to know where the body is.
- Aunt Cecile: What could have happened?
- Fernand, Clerk: Let's call the Poulin place.
- Aunt Cecile: Are you crazy? Suppose they lost the body?
- Fernand, Clerk: Holy Mother of God!