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"Oui, vraiment yei a a ow morbleu!" "Eh, what's that? Oh, misere." "Tare an' ages!"

"Vraiment!" the little fellow answered, a trifle mollified, his anger oozing out at the tips of his fingers. "But then Ah! It is Henri, eh? I did not recognize you earlier. Then what do you advise, Henri you, who have tasted prison life in Germany?" "Yes, yes! Let Henri tell us," called a number of the others; for already our hero had won no small reputation amongst his fellows.

"La famille de Barbérie est honorable, Monsieur mais le Grand Monarque fut un pen trop exigeant. Vraiment, la dragonade était mal avisée, pour faire des chrétiens!" "Apoplexies and hurry! you should have sent for the farrier to administer to the sufferer, thou black hound!" "'Em go for a butcher, Masser, to save he skin; for he war' too soon dead." The word dead produced a sudden pause.

She has a becoming embonpoint, and an air de bon societé which, when we parted, she had not." The more intensely I gazed, the more convinced was I that I was right; the immovable devotion of my eyes attracted the attention of a French officer, who sat near me. "C'est une jolie femme, n'est-ce pas, monsieur?" "Vraiment" said I. "Do you know her name?" "Elle s'appelle Madame de Rosenberg."

The courier jumped out, and running up to the landlord, whispered a few words in his ear, to which the other answered by a deep "ah, vraiment!" and then saluted me with an obsequiousness that made my flesh quake.

He is writing a new opera. Fancy writing an opera at eighty-three! I asked what the name of it was. He answered: "'Le Reve d'Amour. The title is too youthful and the composer is too old. I am making a mistake, but what of that? It is my last!" I said I hoped he would live many more years and write many more operas. He shook his head, saying, "Non, non, c'est vraiment mon dernier!"

Most conversations that were not connected with eating and hunting were of this nature to Henri. "Hom'-sik," he cried, "veech mean bein' sik of hom'! Hah! dat is fat I am always be, ven I goes hout on de expedition. Oui, vraiment." "I always packs up," continued Joe, paying no attention to Henri's remark "I always packs up an' sets off for home when I gits home-sick.

Of late years the Charleses had subsided into the more republican but scarcely less royally carried magnificence and ease of plantation life along the Mississippi. Perhaps Grandemont was even Marquis de Brassé. There was that title in the family. But a Marquis on seventy-five dollars per month! Vraiment! Still, it has been done on less.

After much toil he reached the bottom, and, standing there, up to the ankles in a small rivulet, gazed upward at the bank he had now to ascend. "Vraiment, it be uncommonly difficile," said he, addressing himself to the task, while the perspiration began to roll down his forehead.

"May I ask," said Dan at length, disturbed by this scrutiny, and rising to a courtesy that was in reality beyond him, "for what reason you have done me the honour to wish to speak with me?" "Vraiment," replied Madame de la Fontaine; "after the events of last night there is need that we should have some conversation.