“No, it isn’t; it’s Rossignol.”[9]
“Lord, what a beastly bad pun!”
“Do let him sit down.”
“Whom? The pun?”
“Get out! Berlioz, of course.”
“I say, Fleury, bring us some punch—real good stuff. We’ll stop this idiot’s mouth.”
“Now our musical section is complete.”
“Montfort” (the laureate of the year before me), “embrace your comrade.”
“No, he sha’n’t!”