But I've come to see if you have any work to sell.
My name is Oxford, and I'm acting for a collector." He said this with a very agreeable mingling of sincerity, deference, and mercantile directness, also with a bright, admiring smile.

He showed no astonishment at the interior of the attic.
_Maitre_! Well, of course, it would be idle to pretend that the greatest artists do not enjoy being addressed as _maitre_.

'Master' is the same word, but entirely different.

It was a long time since Priam Farll had been called _maitre_.

Indeed, owing to his retiring habits, he had very seldom been called _maitre_ at all.