SKETCHES OF THE THEATRE (7): The singer's mother. = And to think that that miserable old skinflint of a director sulks about giving sixty thousand francs a year to an angel who sings like That!

NEWS 167: Do you think perhaps it's a spectator... well not even that!... it's the director!!!

NEWS 167: Do you think perhaps it's a spectator... well not even that!... it's the director!!!

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 62: THE DAQY WHEN YOU HAVE TO DISPLAY GALLANTRY: －How much is that big bouquet?... －Ten francs －Good God!... and this little here? －Fifteen francs －Damnation!..

NEWS 66: To think that there are people who, in weather like this, are cruel enough to put that dog out of doors!

Affectation 2: I said to myself: do they think we're from the rue des Lombards?... There's a little air about you which is not that of a confectioner at all

SKETCH OF THE DAY 28: You know the fat deputy from opposite, who's a representative at 25 francs a day, well, this morning I read off the newspaper that they'd given him a commission! －A commission pays generally seventy five centimes without even a written decision... on that day he should've made 25 francs 15 sous, what luck!

PARISIAN MEN IN 1852. 4: A benefit day [at the theatre]: Having paid ten francs for their seats

News 112: You’re wrong to want to post up that...advertisement..

Pro-divorce Women 3: Husbands are merely a vain people, think [about that]!..

PARISIANS TYPES 29: Discomfort in talking to people who have a mania for putting thier story into action. －Yes dear Sir, do you think that the rrrrascal was allowed to laugh in my face. You know I won't stand for that. So, I punched him... there, like that, do you see, and I shook you... there, like that... vigorously

WHEN YOU'RE UNLUCKY 1: －To think that I've not been able to fire a single shot since this morning!... －Oh! different from me... I've killed my dog!..

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

IN CHINA 13: －Here, look at that case..., it contains the American envoys who are going to Peking!... －You'd think that that carriage contained curious animals... －To be sure! if they are curious..., too bad for them, because they won't see much of the country they're travelling through!..

IN CHINA 13: －Here, look at that case..., it contains the American envoys who are going to Peking!... －You'd think that that carriage contained curious animals... －To be sure! if they are curious..., too bad for them, because they won't see much of the country they're travelling through!..

The Good Bourgeois 3: So! What do you think of me in my new uniform...I think I ought to have a fairly stylish little look!..

The Good Bourgeois 3: So! What do you think of me in my new uniform...I think I ought to have a fairly stylish little look!..

NEWS 203: Casmajou－ I think that the time has come to claim as the price for my devotion the reward of a frock-coat! Ratapoil－ Well, now, do you think my boots leave nothing to be desired in connection with the sole! (Together)(in chorus)－ Oh, the ingratitude of Governments!

SKETCHES OF THE THEATRE 4: THE-STAGE-MANAGER. － You play kings ineffectually, I'm going to hit you with a fine of not less than one franc fifty, for having missed your entry

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 61: －What were you thinking of, Mr. Piquepruneman, to have made me a frock-coat as much [in the style] of a landlord as that... you well know that I live in the same street as citizen Proudhon!..

IN CHINA 21: To think that there is what the French call Chinese!..

NEWS 35: AN AERIAL [SHORT] EXCURSION TRAIN. The aeronaut. － Well! gentlemen, what do you say to this spectacle? A citizen. － I say that I'm very angry at having paid three hundred francs for my place!..

JOURNEY TO CHINA 6: CHINESE PROPRIETY. In this country they have a singular idea of propriety!... the most chaste young girl, the most upstanding woman do not blush, by a prodigious exaggeration of forms, to call attention to a certain quarter to which they give the appearance of a veritable air-balloon... they call that a bustle..

The Blue-stockings 12: To think that Arsinoé was not happy to be the sitter for her portrait..

NEWS 62: －Got to admit that it's very odd that the grapes have caught the potatoes' disease!