Take these slops to the pig, but you must not wait to see him enjoy them: you are wanted to chop billets.' Beat the mats, take down the curtains, walk to church (best part of a league), and heat the pew cushions; come back and cut the cabbages, paint the door, and wheel the old lady about the terrace, rub quicksilver on the little dog's back,--mind he don't bite you to make hisself sick,--repair the ottoman, roll the gravel, scour the kettles, carry half a ton of water up two purostairs, trim the turf, prune the vine, drag the fish-pond; and when you ARE there, go in and gather water lilies for Mademoiselle Josephine while you are drowning the puppies; that is little odd jobs: may Satan twist her neck who invented them!" "Very sad all this," said young Riviere.
Dard took the little sneer for sympathy, and proceeded to "the cruellest wrong of all." "When I go into their kitchen to court Jacintha a bit, instead of finding a good supper there, which a man has a right to, courting a cook, if I don't take one in my pocket, there is no supper, not to say supper, for either her or me.

I don't call a salad and a bit of cheese-rind--SUPPER.

Beggars in silk and satin! Every sou they have goes on to their backs, instead of into their bellies." "I have heard their income is much reduced," said Edouard gently.
"Income! I would not change with them if they'd throw me in half a pancake a day.

I tell you they are the poorest family for leagues round; not that they need be quite so starved, if they could swallow a little of their pride.

But no, they must have china and plate and fine linen at dinner; so their fine plates are always bare, and their silver trays empty.