Do you know anything about Alpine butterflies ?" "Very little," confessed the minister.
"There is often great danger in getting at them; but the pleasure is commensurate." "Are there not rare butterflies in the Amazonian swamps ?" cynically.
"Ah, but this man has good blood in him; and if he flies at all he will fly high.

Think of this man fifty years ago; what a possibility he would have been! But it is out of fashion to-day.

Well, monsieur, I must be off.

There is an old manuscript at the Bibliotheque I wish to inspect." "Concerning this matter ?" "Butterflies," softly; "or, I should say, chrysalides." The subtle inference passed by the minister.

There were many other things to-ing and fro-ing in the busy corridors of his brain.