SKETCHES OF SUMMER 28: －Well! aren't you going to get dressed?... －Me... I'm going to spend my whole life like this, in my bathing costume... out of the water... －Even in winter?... －Oh! in winter... I'll put on my hat

Childish Acts 4: In winter it's silly to have children dressed up as nicely as this!..

NEWS 51: －Are you going to open the cage door [?] －Upon my word... I'm going to repaint it

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!..

SKETCHES OF WINTER 2: Going to sample what it is convenient to call, even in the month of December, the pleasures of the hunt!..

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

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 38: The Charade: My first of my lot still keeps going... Horse...Silver...Public Road...good heaven!!!...that's not going

Double Faces 1: The Uncle-The Nephew: [On the left of the page, vertically]: (The Nephew, aloud) I've been given a little too much, that's bad －(The Uncle, aside) I'll inherit from my nephew, how strange! [On the right of the page,vertically]: (The Uncle, aloud) I'm not well, my friend. －(The Nephew, aside)Things are going well, I'm going to inherit from him

PROFILES 5: THE PORTER ON HIS ROUNDS ON NEW YEAR'S DAY: Nothing but 115 francs for my wishes, and I've already done eight floors!!! Dunces of Tenants! Another time I'll give them wishes... wouldn't they like to get it!

NEWS 110: － Take you to the Madeleine, what nonsense! I'm going to take you to the Zoo, I'm invited for dinner near there

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 15: THE OLD ROUÉE: So I'm going to be a door-keeper in the rue du Mont-Blanc in a large house where my husband says they'll call us porters. So I'm going to leave this ramshackle place where there're only four tenants who give me five sous apiece for a New Year's present... Scum!!!..

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 7: －Mister Prudhomme..., I'm drowning!... －Very well!... madam, I am going to collect... －My person..., oh! thank you... －No, madam..., not being able to swim at all, I am going to collect your last will and testament... I can do no more!..

SKETCHES OF AUTUMN 2: IMPRESSIONS OF THE GRAPE-HARVESTS. －What... you get in there with bare feet!... －Well!... you shouldn't put polished shoes in there!..

Strangers in Paris 1: The arrival: What, no room!... －Not even for your hat-box... －What about in the sitting-room? －Twenty one Englishmen are in there... －In the attic?... －I've put eleven Savoyards in there... －In the celler?... －Fifteen Polish people have set up home... －Oh! hang it...oh! damnation... oh! Good God!...are we going to spend the night by the side of a milestone?... －That's what you'd better do, because then the night patrol will get you out of trouble quickly by taking you to sleep at the Prefecture of Police's office, Saint Martin cell!... specially reserved for the homeless and poodles without papers!..

PASTORALS 34: -－Will you shut up with your Cock-a doodle-doos...there's no point in coming to the country to sleep peacefully, －I'm woken everyday at three o'clock in the morning... I slept better in Paris, even when my wife was alive!..

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 12: What's the matter with you, Robert? you seem full of care. －Yes I'm vexed... Those devils of Shareholders have tormented me so much, tormented me so much that I gave them a dividend. －Deuce! a real dividend? －Yes, I gave it to them completely.. －What are you goin to do? －I'm going to try to get it back

PARISIAN SKETCHES 33: － How late you are arriving at the Stock-Exchange... I'll warrant you've had a windfall?... scoundrel!... － What do you expect!... I'll settle down..., when I get old!..

SKETCHES OF AUTUMN 1: －What... you're going to press grapes with your feet ?... －Well!...they're not at all dirty... anyway, I've taken care to take my shoes off!..

The Blue-stockings 3: Goodbye, my dear, I am going to my editors’..

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 1: －What luck... there's a gentleman soaping himself... I'm going to take advantage of his water!..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 10: THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR OF THE EMPIRE: Deuce, deuce! I've taken advantage of Véry, Véfour, the Café Anglais, I've disappeared without paying, on the pretext of an important post I'm waiting for... here am I descended to 32 sous dinners and they give me my bill... I shall have to change my standing... I'm going to play the banker who's forgotten his purse

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 86: A DECLARATION, IN FULL PUBLIC: －I lo lo lo lo ve you!... －I lo lo lo lo ve you!... (This tender avowal having been made in a flat key, the husband is unable to repeat it)

The Artists 2: One day I shall have to get you to make my portrait in that style..