I may say that I knew of this appointment and of your other honors before I heard of them, for I spend the night in anagrammatizing your name as follows:" [proudly] "Isidore C.T.

Baudoyer,--Director, decorated by us (his Majesty the King, of course)." Baudoyer bowed and remarked piously that names were given in baptism.
Monsieur and Madame Baudoyer, senior, father and mother of the new director, were there to enjoy the glory of their son and daughter-in-law.

Uncle Gigonnet-Bidault, who had dined at the house, had a restless, fidgety look in his eye which frightened Bixiou.
"There's a queer one," said the latter to du Bruel, calling his attention to Gigonnet, "who would do in a vaudeville.

I wonder if he could be bought.

Such an old scarecrow is just the thing for a sign over the Two Baboons.