Volume II Part 19 (2/2)
”Pray tell me, sir, what her honour has to do with her health?”
Ia horse which he cannot master, and at last he is thrown I stop the horse, run to the assistance of the young man and help him up
”Did you hurt yourself, sir?”
”Oh, many thanks, sir, au contraire”
”Why au contraire! The deuce! It has done you good? Then begin again, sir”
And a thousand siood sense
But it is the genius of the language
I was one day paying my first visit to the wife of President de N----, when her nephew, a brilliant butterfly, ca my name and my country
”Indeed, sir, you are Italian?” said the young racefully that I would have betted you were French”
”Sir, when I saw you, I was nearthe same mistake; I would have betted you were Italian”
Another ti at Lady Lambert's in nuer a cornelian ring on which was engraved very beautifully the head of Louis XV My ring went round the table, and everybody thought that the likeness was striking
A young reat wit, said to me in the most serious tone,
”It is truly an antique?”
”The stone, htless young beauty, who did not take any notice of it Towards the end of the dinner, someone spoke of the rhinoceros, which was then shewn for twenty-four sous at the St
Gero and see it!” was the cry
We got into the carriages, and reached the fair We took several turns before we could find the place I was the only gentle care of two ladies in thein front of us At the end of the alley where we had been told that ould find the animal, there was a man placed to receive the money of the visitors It is true that the man, dressed in the African fashi+on, was very dark and enormously stout, yet he had a human and very masculine form, and the beautiful marquise had no business tocreature went up straight to him and said,
”Are you the rhinoceros, sir?”
”Go in, ; and the ht herself bound to apologize to thehim that she had never seen a rhinoceros in her life, and therefore he could not feel offended if she hadI was in the foyer of the Italian Cohest noble, in order to converse and joke with the actresses who used to sit there waiting for their turn to appear on the stage, and I was seated near Ca love to her A young councillor, who objected toa very conceited fellow, attackedan Italian play, and took the liberty of shewing his bad te hi all the tiated around us and was attentive to the discussion, which, being carried on as an assault of wit, had nothing to make it unpleasant
But it see the conversation on the police of the city, said that for soh the streets of Paris
”During the lastof sevenwhom there were five Italians An extraordinary circumstance”