In foreign countries everybody makes a principal business of letting lodgings; all other trades are accessory.

In the evening, linen changed, I sat in my balcony.

In the opposite balcony I saw a woman; oh! such a woman! Greek,--_that tells all_! The most beautiful creature in the town; almond eyes, lids that dropped like curtains, lashes like a paint-brush, a face with an oval to drive Raffaelle mad, a skin of the most delicious coloring, tints well-blended, velvety! and hands, oh!--" "They weren't made of butter like those of the David school," put in Mistigris.
"You are always lugging in your painting," cried Georges.
"La, la!" retorted Mistigris; "'an ounce o' paint is worth a pound of swagger.'" "And such a costume! pure Greek!" continued Schinner.

"Conflagration of soul! you understand?
Well, I questioned my Diafoirus; and he told me that my neighbor was named Zena.

Changed my linen.