These ladies have listened to you patiently, it is but justice to them to admit; but all that they have been able to gather from your slightly Latinish discourse, is that you have given them a dissertation instead of the romance you promised.

But we all forgive you for the sake of the mummy you are going to show us.

Open the colonel's box." "We've well earned the sight!" cried Clementine, laughing.
"But suppose you were to get frightened ?" "I'd have you know, sir, that I'm not afraid of anybody, not even of live colonels!" Leon took his bunch of keys and opened the long oak box on which he had been seated.

The lid being raised, they saw a great leaden casket which enclosed a magnificent walnut box carefully polished on the outside, and lined on the inside with white silk, and padded.

The others brought their lamps and candles near, and the colonel of the 23d of the line appeared as if he were in a chapel illuminated for his lying in state.
One would have said that the man was asleep.