The answer merely puzzled Dorothea, who did not know that Seymour was the name of the British officer to whom the _Thetis_ had struck her colours.
"Moreover," the young man went on imperturbably, "we but repay our debt to M.le Commissaire--for the entertainment he affords us." Dorothea looked up sharply now, even anxiously; but her brother took the shot, if shot it were, for a compliment.

He put the awkward idiom aside with a gracious wave of the hand.

His brow cleared.
"But we must do something for these poor fellows," he announced,-- sweeping all the work-men in a gaze; "in mere gratitude we must.

A stall, now, at the end of the room under the gallery, with one or two salesmen whom you must recommend to me, General.

We might dispose of quite a number of their small carvings and _articles de Paris_, with which the market among the townspeople is decidedly overstocked.