IN CHINA 19: －Tchinn-Tchinn..., you bring me good news!... I accord you the highest honour of kissing the august dust of my august shoes!..

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 14: My dear fellow, may I have the pleasure of your lending me 15 frcs.[francs].－Willingly, but I've only got ten. －Deuce!...deuce!... give them to me anyway, you can owe me five

NEWS 257: Commerce: How do you think I can walk if you always hold me back!

THESE GOOD PARISIANS 13: THE PARISIAN － Tell me, worthy fellow, what do you do with all your cows when they become old and no longer give milk?... THE COW-HERD － Look here,... the tomfoolery.. you make beef out of them!..

News 127: How do you like my shawl..

Very good! very good! you are behaving perfectly! we are going to take you to Beaulieu, to Poissy, to Bicêtre, I am pleased with you

TRIVIAL THINGS 10: You; my friend! how did you know I'm a widower; after twenty years of hard lab...[our]... no to setting up house: you see I'm beginning to recover myself and you're suggesting to me a second marriage...Ragoulot, will you let go of me!

Conjugal Manners 38: ﾐﾐ Oh! You think your wife doesn't look after you well enough, you rogue; when you spend everything, scoundrel!...Well, I'll make myself kiss-curls, rascal!... and I'll buy bonnets... and I'll make you eat corks, rascal... ﾐﾐ My angel, I'm wrong, you are a good housewife...but you're breaking everything

Bathers 25: Excuse me, Worshipful Mayor... Could you..

NEWS 186: －And that's how you give yourself sprains in the back!.....

NEWS 225: －To think that with the stone from all these pedestals you could have built a good dozen primary schools

Conjugal Manners 36: Arthur, you had promised me a throne..

NEWS 180: －This is not the only time you will replace us!..

TRIVIAL THINGS 6: －Is it to you or to the Gentleman who's your brother that I have the honour of speaking? －It is to my brother, Sir

NEWS 247: － You will finish by tiring of attacking me... poor little Myrmidons!..

NEWS 2: Oh you who offer me white and brown sugar. At present I can only put you in salad

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 40: －Sir, would you be kind enough to tell me when you'ld like to pay me back the five hundred francs you've been owing me for a long time... －My dear man, you're unreasonable to make such a request of me, you clearly see that I have nothing on me at this very moment..

NEWS 6: I have seen the days of my entire family cut short And I have seen my husband dragged through the dust! (Andromaque)

Suddenly I felt better. Maybe it was the magic of the old woman, or the gods had pity on me

NEWS 48: SQUINTING: To be sure, I didn't recognise you! －Oh! that's because I've been operated on, I don't squint any more, that changes me completely don't you think? －Oh! completely, because before I think you squinted inwards...

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 42: Missus Bonneau!... missus Bonneau!... I love missus Bonneau, me!...you sya,she said to you that I told her!...it's not...true!..

PARISIANS TYPES 6: Well there you are, what've you got there? －Don't talk to me about it; we've got people to stay and I've just done my shopping

Conjugal Manners 44: Inconvenient to dream aloud: I dreamed... I called Victor! You lied to me, you old gherkin, I couldn't call Victor, because you'd named him Boniface!

Conjugal Manners 45: Heavens! after three months' absence I find my wife's left home!... and good God! what mementoes she's left me!

Strangers in Paris 4: Some slight purchases: Oh!...the beautiful shawls... would you buy me one, dear?... －What!... why didn't you say straightaway that you wanted everything, and we could have started by simply buying up the whole la Ville de Paris shop!..