Oh, your poor mother! Whatever would she have said to these goings-on ?" Lupin helped himself to another cutlet; his eves twinkled and he said, "I'm not sure that she would have been very much surprised.

I always told her that I was going to punish society for the way it had treated her.

Do you think she would have been surprised ?" "Oh, nothing you did would have surprised her," said Victoire.

"When you were quite a little boy you were always making us wonder.

You gave yourself such airs, and you had such nice manners of your own--altogether different from the other boys.