"But why give him a feast?
Let us--I'll tell you--let us give him a spectacle.

A battle, perhaps." "In which you should be a general, I suppose, as you were in that snow--ball fight at Brienne, of which we have heard once or twice," said d'Hebonville sarcastically.
"And why not ?" asked Napoleon haughtily.
"Or the death of Caesar, like the tableaux we arranged at Brienne," suggested Demetrius Comneno enthusiastically.
"In which your great Napoleon played Brutus, I suppose," said d'Hebonville.

"No, no; the birthday of old Bauer is not a solemn occasion to demand a battle or a spectacle; something much more simple will do for a professor of German.

Let us make it a good collation.
There are fifteen of us in his class.

If each one of us contributes five dollars, we could get up quite a feast." "Oh, see here, d'Hebonville!" cried Mabille; "think a little.