I have not smoked for two whole days." "Most willingly, but how?
Will you take the trouble to come downstairs ?" "Alas! I can't! I am shut up here, but am still free to employ a very simple means." He fastened his pipe to a string, and let it glide down to her balcony, where Sidonia filled it profusely herself.

Rodolphe then proceeded, with much ease and deliberation, to remount his pipe, which arrived without accident.

"Ah, mademoiselle!" he exclaimed, "how much better this pipe would have seemed, if I could have lighted it at your eyes!" It was at least the hundredth edition of this amiable pleasantry, but Sidonia found it superb for all that, and thought herself bound to reply, "You flatter me." "I assure you, mademoiselle, in right-down earnest, I think you handsomer than all the Three Graces together." "Decidedly, Ali Baba is very polite," thought Sidonia.

"Are you really a Turk ?" she asked Rodolphe.
"Not by profession," he replied, "but by necessity.

I am a dramatic author." "I am an artist," she replied, then added, "My dear sir and neighbor, will you do me the honor to dine and spend the evening with me ?" "Alas!" answered Rodolphe, "though your invitation is like opening heaven to me, it is impossible to accept it.