PASTORALS 13: －What!... all my sheep are dead of the pip and my chickens of sheep-pox!... and this is what's sold to me as a country house with a yield and charm!..

PASTORALS 13: －What!... all my sheep are dead of the pip and my chickens of sheep-pox!... and this is what's sold to me as a country house with a yield and charm!..

GALLERY OF PHYSIONOMY 10: Oh! my wife is dead!

－Here you are, General...... here's what the zouaves call their TABLE-FORK!!... －Well then......, what's their knife like ?.....

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 17: THE WORKER FOR A LABOUR EXCHANGE: Employed at fifteen sous a day, as a secret bill-poster, what a fate! They're asking for a replacement, by Jove, as are my hat and my clothes, and above all my last night's supper's asking for a replacement!

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 80: A PHILANTHROPIC LOTTERY: －The gentleman －for my twenty francs I've won a dreadful woman's bag... how ridiculous! －The lady －and I['ve won] a pair of razors one of which is badly dented... what a bore!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 29: －What's become of you then [,] Mister Lebrun?... －I've become a runaway... to the Stock-Exchange!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 67 : －My poor Azor's died!... －What a shame... better send a letter quick to inform General Grammont!..

TRIVIAL THINGS 1: Eleven degrees centigrade! what a bad turn it gives you! and they call this a year of mercy!

PASTORALS 22: －I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..

PASTORALS 22: －I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..

PASTORALS 22: －I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..

Strangers in Paris 3: What is called dining in a restaurant: －Waiter!...I've been in your establishment for an hour and a quarter without having a chair...and you've still only given the tooth-picks to my wife who's dying of hunger... you'll make me lose my normal posture, and I'll end up with my feet in the dish... do you understand, waiter! －There now, Sir... there there now, there there!!!

NEWS 457: Master, you owe me five sous more for your luggage..., and, what's more, I'm polite. because I could count your wife as a second bundle..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 54: －Well, there's my wife going off... high speed... twelve leagues an hour... what a fine invention steam is!..

PASTORALS 32: －Thief of a cock-chafer... so it's you who's eating away all my property... you'll perish by my hand alone!..

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 8: 2 O'CLOCK: Azor's snack: What's the matter, dear chap, this animal has only me, you, you've got everyone

PARISIAN IN 1848. 1: －Well... I didn't recognise you... what moustaches!... －It's necessary... I've been made a corporal..

PASTORALS 10: The danger of wanting to visit too wild spot

NEWS 85: THE ELECTORAL MACHINE-GUN. What a sprinkling!..

NEWS 177: UNNECESSARY REGRETS!: －What a pity that this phenomenon should die on the very day of its birth!... it should have been admired by all the courts of Europe!..

PARISIAN SKETCHES 42: A protest [for non-payment] on New Year's day... what luck!..

NEWS 471: － What,... is it really possible!... there'll soon be beef for next to nothing and veal into a bargain!... － So they say, misis Gobinard,.... and they say!..

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 15: A groundless quarrel. －..Yes, Sir, do me the pleasure of giving that jovial fellow a brief respite... understood that the aforesaid gentleman denies himself the printing of my newspaper, and by this fact ruins my undertaking; to see oneself condemned to 67,000 f[rancs] of losses and interest... －But on what is his refusal grounded? －Oh, on a foolishness.... a trifle... on what I should pay him in cash, for which I'm 21 months in arrears... it's a poor pretext, a groundless quarrel

Proverbs and Maxims 12: There's a sucker! personally, I agree with the proverb: “What's good to take is good to keep.”