In another instant he had passed away down the terrace steps, obedient to his chief's dismissal.
"Ah! have no kind scruples in keeping them, madame," Chateauroy laughed to her, as she still held in her hand, doubtfully, the White Sheik of the chess Arabs; "I will see that Bel-a-faire-peur, as they call him, does not suffer by losing these trumperies, which, I believe, old Zist-et-Zest, a veteran of ours and a wonderful carver, had really far more to do with producing than he.

You must not let your gracious pity be moved by such fellows as these troopers of mine; they are the most ingenious rascals in the world, and know as well how to produce a dramatic effect in your presence as they do how to drink and to swear when they are out of it." "Very possibly," she said, with an indolent indifference; "but that man was no actor, and I never saw a gentleman if he have not been one." "Like enough," answered the Marquis.

"I believe many 'gentlemen' come into our ranks who have fled their native countries and broken all laws from the Decalogue to the Code Napoleon.

So long as they fight well, we don't ask their past criminalities.

We cannot afford to throw away a good soldier because he has made his own land too hot to hold him." "Of what country is your Corporal, then ?" "I have not an idea.