One has to say to B what one has said to A; to C exactly what one has said to A and B; and when it comes to repeating to F the formularies one has uttered to A, B, C, D and E one grows almost hysterical with the boredom of it.

That was the delightful charm of Eleanor Faversham; she demanded no formularies or re-enactment of raptures.
The _Annuaire Officiel de l'Armee Francaise_ has arrived.

It is a volume of nearly eighteen hundred pages, and being uncut both at top and bottom and at the side it is peculiarly serviceable as a work of reference.
I attacked it bravely, however, hacking my way into it, paperknife in hand.

But to my dismay, the more I hacked the less could I find of Captain Vauvenarde.

I sought him in the Alphabetical Repertory of Colonial Troops, in the list of officers _hors cadre_, in the lists of seniority, in the list of his regiment, wherever he was likely or unlikely to be.