qu'est-ce

Updated: May 13, 2025

"Mais qu'est-ce que vous avez," Monsieur le Surveillant demanded, in a tone of profound if kindly astonishment, as I wended my lonely way to la soupe some days after the disappearance of les partis. I stood and stared at him very stupidly without answering, having indeed nothing at all to say. "But why are you so sad?" he asked. "I suppose I miss my friend," I ventured.

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room

"Qu'est-ce que c'est que cette merveille?" she enquired; to which Mme. de Brecourt made answer that it was a little American her brother had somewhere dug up. "And what do you propose to do with it, may one ask?"

Henry James - The Reverberator