When the cows come in I milk 'em just a little and I live on that.

Monseigneur isn't so poor but what he'll let me drink a drop o' milk the cows get from his grass ?" "Perhaps he hasn't eaten anything to-day," said the countess, touched by his misery.

"Give him some bread and the rest of that chicken; let him have his breakfast," she added, looking at the footman.

"Where do you sleep, my child ?" "Anywhere, madame; under the stars in summer, and wherever they'll let us in winter." "How old are you ?" "Twelve." "There is still time to bring him up to better ways," said the countess to her husband.
"He will make a good soldier," said the general, gruffly; "he is well toughened.

I went through that kind of thing myself, and here I am." "Excuse me, general, I don't belong to nobody," said the boy.