LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 76: A ‘PAMELA’ HAT: You are quite right, madam, to embrace the ravishing form of this new hat... in profile above all it suits your countenance divinely!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 97: THEY RETURN FROM SPONGING OFF POPPETS

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 12: A day of the 1st performance

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 12: A day of the 1st performance

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 88: A NEW ACQUAINTANCE: Oh! madam... I've found Zémire for you, but I certainly think I've lost my heart!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 77: PANCAKES: There you go, that's how I give one to myself!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 10: THE FIRST BEARD: You really want to be able to shave your beard too, don't you, brat... for that wait until you're fifteen like me!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 71: A STEEPLE-CHASE WINNER: －So you confirm that I came in first... －My dear chap you were magnificent... everybody envies your lot!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 84: RECEPTION OF A FREE-MASON: We know from a reliable source that you are here among us only to unveil our secrets to outsiders... your guilty schemes will be frustrated... I have just received order to plunge this dagger into your breast!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 18: SHROVE TUESDAY: －I say... Balandier... I think it’s raining?... －You’re mistaken... Moussard... seems to me the opposite ‘cos I’ve just caught sun-stroke!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 66: A NEWLY ENNOBLED MAN: (The manservant announcing) －The Baahh-ron de Blois-flotté!

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 63: THE NEIGHBOURS BEFORE THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: Well, I won the case all the same, and you won't be so stuck-up now, Mrs. Pimbèche... because the Justice of the Peace has sentenced you to go back to your house which backs on to mine!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 58: IN CARNIVAL MOOD: －Let's go and laugh and [dance] jigs!... personally, I'll be disguised as a friend!... －Excellent!... you won't be recognised!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 91: A gentleman who wants to give himself the satisfaction of having his [death]mask

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 91: A gentleman who wants to give himself the satisfaction of having his [death]mask

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 87: THE LADY WHO CULTIVATES THE ARTS: The gentlemen in chorus. It's charming...It's chaarming... It's chaaahhhming!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 93: THE DEVILISH SEDUCERS: －Did you see how that little woman looked at us out of the corner of her eye as she passed... it's only at our age that you can truly please women!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 9: FULL DRESS DAY: I think like this I look a little... slightly Old Guard!..

PRACTICES OF THE MERCHANTS OF PARIS 4: That fits your head like a glove!

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 68: A FASHIONABLE SUIT: －Sir, I swear that this suit is very becoming!... －Yes it's becoming and economical... with a similar [short] jacket you can perfectly well open the door when [the bell], is rung, and pass yourself off as your own man-servant!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 100: A FILIAL HOMMAGE: Yes, it's Leonidas... it's certainly Leonidas...(The happy father deems it necessary to become tender because he recognises Leonidas.)

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 61: A MISTRESS AT THE OPERA: －You see that little brunette dancer who's [skirt is] ballooning now... well, dear chap! I've had her for a week... she's mad about me!..

TRAGICO-CLASSICAL PHYSIOGNOMIES 9: Hidden far from this place, Madam, I will see you; Conceal your love in the depths of your soul! (Britannius.) [sic]

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 19: A VANITY SATISFIED: －Oh! at last!... the Monitor has recorded my “very good”... naming me in full... about time, too... at least my constituents will no longer say I don't speak in the Chamber!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 11: A DINNER AT VÉRY’S: So! I've just dined as a bachelor!... yes! but my wife entrusted me with a louis and I've got left... sixty centimes!