——“I would trust nobody.”
——“Not even a bishop?”
——“Not even a bishop.”
“Things are dreadfully dear in France; one spends no end of money in Paris,” said another Briton to me one day.
——“Do you think so?” I replied. “When I am in Paris, and am staying at an hotel, I spend but about twenty-five francs a day, and I live like a prince.”
——“Frightfully dear! I tell you.”
——“And you talk of going again next month?”
——“Yes, but I shall have my wife with me.”
——“What! you will take your wife! You will spend double as much then....”
——“Not at all, I....”