Moreover, as she was rather polyglot in her flirtations, and received visitors from all parts of the world, the parrot spoke all languages, and would sometimes let out a _lingua Franca_ of oaths enough to shock the sailors to whom "Vert-Vert" owed his profitable education.

The company of this bird, which might be instructive and amusing for ten minutes, became a positive torture when prolonged.

The neighbors had often complained; the actress insolently disregarded their complaints.

Two or three other tenants of the house, respectable fathers of families, indignant at the scandalous state of morals into which they were initiated by the indiscretions of the parrot, had given warning to the landlord.

But the actress had got on his weak side; whoever might go, she stayed.
The Englishman whose sitting room Schaunard now entered, had suffered with patience for three months.