It is no disparagement to a real gentleman." "Then why, may I ask, are you travelling about here ?" "Ah! venir ici de Paris, c'est tomber du ciel a l'enfer! ('To come hither from Paris is to fall out of heaven into hell!') C'est merveilleux, wonderful, that men can live here at all.

Ah, mon cher heyduke, sure I see something cooked.

Be so good as to bring it nearer; put it on the table, and fill my glass for me.

A votre sante, messieurs et mesdames! And to your health in particular, Monsieur Jock!" Jock had listened patiently to this harangue.

His eyes followed attentively every movement of the stranger, and a sort of resigned melancholy gradually stole over his features.
"Then what brings my lord hither--out of heaven into hell ?" "Helas!" sighed Abellino, drumming a march on his plate with his knife and fork.