"If you don't choose to be pushed here, you should come in a sedan chair."
"Or on your husband's mule."
"With his junior clerk.—Well! I must pass, all the same."
"You are treading on my foot, monsieur!"
"Why do you put your feet on the ground? in a crowd like this, you should stand on the air or perch on your neighbors."
"Oh! look yonder, Bahuchet! there's a lady with a mask!"
"Because she is ugly; that is why she doesn't choose to show her face."
"Or else she is here on the sly."
"Look you! I prefer to look at the faces of those two little hussies in blue caps."
"Yes, they are very pretty; but I know them by sight; they come here to meet a couple of pages; I often meet them walking with their lovers on the Pré-aux-Clercs."