"It will give me great pleasure, monsieur."
"I have brought a few thongth, which I thing pathably—tholoth and dueth.—You play everything at thight, I know?"
"I will try, at all events, monsieur; and if they're not too hard——"
"Here'th the aria from La Dame Blanche. I can thing that; it ith in the range of my voith."
"Very good! I will play your accompaniment."
"If that young man sings as he talks," muttered Batonnin, with an affable smile at the count, who had taken his place opposite him, "it will produce a strange effect."
"He would do much better to let us listen to Mademoiselle Adolphine."
"Oh! yes, she has a voice——"
"Shall we play for two thousand?"
"That goes to the heart, monsieur."