You--' 'Mornay!' the king cried sharply.
'Sire ?' 'Chut! your elbow is in the candle.

Beware of it!' But I well understood him.

If my heart had been full before, it overflowed now.

Poverty is not so shameful as the shifts to which it drives men.

I had been compelled some days before, in order to make as good a show as possible--since it is the undoubted duty of a gentleman to hide his nakedness from impertinent eyes, and especially from the eyes of the canaille, who are wont to judge from externals--to remove such of my furniture and equipage as remained to that side of the room, which was visible from without when the door was open.