Somehow I'm bound to be a prisoner, one way or another.
Never mind, I'm an ambassador; that's satisfaction.

Hark! The Doctor again .-- Come in." No venerable doctor, but in tripped a young French lass, bloom on her cheek, pink ribbons in her cap, liveliness in all her air, grace in the very tips of her elbows.

The most bewitching little chambermaid in Paris.

All art, but the picture of artlessness.
"Monsieur! pardon!" "Oh, I pardon ye freely," said Israel.

"Come to call on the Ambassador ?" "Monsieur, is de--de--" but, breaking down at the very threshold in her English, she poured out a long ribbon of sparkling French, the purpose of which was to convey a profusion of fine compliments to the stranger, with many tender inquiries as to whether he was comfortably roomed, and whether there might not be something, however trifling, wanting to his complete accommodation.