I should like it of all things.

But--" "Ah! what a terrible word that 'but' is.

But what ?" said Ludovico, who had no sooner conceived the idea than he became eager to put it into execution.

"But what ?" "But--a great many things.

Unhappily, there is no word comes oftener into one's life than that odious 'but.' But who is to go with me?
I cannot go all alone by myself ?" "Oh, that's no but at all.