mais-comme

Updated: June 10, 2025

"Tenez, camarade," said Jacques' voice in my ear; "a moi la porte a vous le maitre, la-bas:" and he pointed down the staircase, where, by the glare of the conflagration that beat past us, I saw the figures of Sir Deakin and his daughter standing. "But how can you keep the door against a dozen?" The Frenchman shrugg'd his shoulders with a smile "Mais-comme ca!"

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Splendid Spur