_How_ he used to laugh at my stories! 'Que tu es une drolesse,' he used to say.

I never used to mince matters and we were none the worse for that.

Bless you, he wasn't as bad as they painted him, 'long of all this fuss about the blacks.

As I say, he gave me the Villa de Beau-sejour, and used to say if I behaved myself he might some day make me 'Baronne de Beau-sejour.' How'd you have liked that, eh?
Sort of morganatic Queen?
I lay I'd have put some good management into the runnin' of those places.

Aie! How they used to swindle 'im, and he believing himself always such a sharp man of business! When that Vaughan hussy..." _Vivie_: "Very well.