"Didn't you hear him say it was inward, his plague ?" added the rapin, talking back to Monsieur de Serizy.

"It isn't catching; it only comes out in conversation." "Mistigris! if you interfere again I'll have you put off into the road," said his master.

"And so," he added, turning to Georges, "monsieur has been to the East ?" "Yes, monsieur; first to Egypt, then to Greece, where I served under Ali, pacha of Janina, with whom I had a terrible quarrel.

There's no enduring those climates long; besides, the emotions of all kinds in Oriental life have disorganized my liver." "What, have you served as a soldier ?" asked the fat farmer.

"How old are you ?" "Twenty-nine," replied Georges, whereupon all the passengers looked at him.