LE PIED ANGLAIS
Bathing Woman (to English lady). "Voilà, madame, une belle paire de chaussons." (Noticing disapproval in visitor's face.) "Ah, madame n'en veut pas? Je suis désolée, mais, pour le moment, il ne me reste pas de plus grands."
AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION
He. "There is Madame Chose flirting with a nigger! Why, she is only quite recently a widow."
She. "Ah, that accounts for her choice. She is in mourning, and the black suits her!"