He Never Told His Love, 1884

NEWS 29: AT THE DOOR OF THE ÉLYSÉE [PALACE]: －Sirs, the Prince has told me to tell you that he is not there! －What! does he no longer wish to follow our advice? －No. he [sic] claims that you've already stuffed him full of it as it is... －Hapless France! hapless Prince!

Proverbs and Maxims 9: love Bertrand, love his dog

PASTORALS 1: －Come back here again... you great wheedler!... bite his calves puppy, bite his calves!... －Good God!... I'd never been acquainted with the force of that power there...concerning the punch

Childish Acts 5: I would have never thought that at my age..

NEWS 233: All the same we never doubted that one day we'd sail in that ship

Friends 7: It is because he is your friend..

NEWS 120: Will he leave! [or] won't he!

Ancient History 23: Beautiful Narcissus. He was young and beautiful; with their soft breath / The Zephyrs caressed his contours of manifold attractions, / And in the mirror of the fountains / He loved, as we do, to contemplate his features (Quatrain initiated by Mr. Narcisse de Salvandy)

NEWS 151: －Provided that that devil Mars doesn't remove his muzzle!!

NEWS 219: Perceiving that in thinking of digging foundations{,] he dug his grave

NEWS 219: Perceiving that in thinking of digging foundations{,] he dug his grave

NEWS 219: Perceiving that in thinking of digging foundations{,] he dug his grave

My first happiness year in my life was with Ayesha, Never before had I been so happy

Parisian Freebooters 12: The Crocodile: This has to do with a variety of species of Crocodile, which was known to the ancients under the name of Tantalus and which a Gymnasium naturalist of our time has called the Gastronome without money. This voracious whale-like creature is most commonly found in the localities of Merchants of Eatables. His teeth are pointed and very long from lack of exercise, since he uses only his eyes to devour. When he has had the perseverance to remain for a whole day static in front of his prey he sometimes ends up by having the luck to catch... a crick in the neck. He feeds himself only on desires and vain hopes, he is also remarkably thin. Very different from other fish of his species that swim in open water, this type of Crocodile is always in the dry

Playfull chasing of a father and his son

French Types 2: The tailor: He walks with an arched back, his shoulders like a coat-stand and his elbows turned outwards. His suits, cut in the latest fashion, often clash with his boots and hat, he nearly always has a very euphonical name such as Wahaterkermann or Pikprunmann

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!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 24: －Did he need to smoke pipes[,] him there[,] to get a coloured face!

Reporting in New Orleans, following in the footsteps of Lafcadio Hearn. No matterwhere he went, Okamura never failed to visit secondhand bookshops

NEWS 263: Will he win over her, or won't he?...... the bets are on

NEWS 200: A VISIT TO THE CONVICT-PRISON IN NAPLES: Mr.Gladstone－ And what do you call this man? he doesn't look like a villain. The Gaolor－ Don't you believe any of it, on the contrary,he's a demagogue, an old constitutional minister of 1848 called Carlo Poërio. In his inexhaustible clemency the best and most worthy of kings ordered that we chain him to an assassin, so that he might return to the good. He'd have been completely lost if we'd left him with another demagogue

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 8: THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL FRIEND: Ah! dear friend; how stout you've become... let me embrace you! let me embrace you! (the instant after, it was nothing but a mistake and the gentleman discovers that his extempore friend wished to make the acquaintance of... his watch!)

PARISIAN SKETCHES 21: SCENE OF HORSEFLESH-EATING. － True indeed... there's Sir eating his old horse... I only hope that one day he doesn't get the idea of sitting down to eat his old maid!..

The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out