"If your soldier was like you, he was a beauty!"
"I suppose he was in the Invalids?"
"The remains of a man—"
"How many glass eyes had he?"
"And wasn't his nose of block tin?"
"He must have been short of two arms and two legs, besides being deaf and blind, if he took up with you."
"I am ugly,—a monster, I know that as well as you can tell me. Say what you like,—make game of me, if you choose, it's all one to me; only don't beat me, that's all, I beg!"
"What have you got in that old handkerchief?" asked La Louve.
"Yes, yes! What is it?"
"Show it up directly!"