But, I hass you to pardon me, Monsieur Frowenfel', if I 'ave speak a lill too warm." "Then you must forgive me if, in my desire to set you right, I have spoken with too much liberty.

I probably should have said only what I first intended to say, that unless you are a person of independent means--" "You t'ink I would make bill of ladin'?
Ah! Hm-m!" "-- that you had made a mistake in throwing up your means of support--" "But 'e 'as fill de place an' don' want me no mo'.

You want a clerk ?--one what can speak fo' lang-widge--French, Eng-lish, Spanish, _an'_ Italienne?
Come! I work for you in de mawnin' an' paint in de evenin'; come!" Joseph was taken unaware.

He smiled, frowned, passed his hand across his brow, noticed, for the first time since his delivery of the picture, the naked little boy standing against the edge of a door, said, "Why--," and smiled again.
"I riffer you to my cousin Honore," said Innerarity.
"Have you any knowledge of this business ?" "I 'ave.' "Can you keep shop in the forenoon or afternoon indifferently, as I may require ?" "Eh?
Forenoon--afternoon ?" was the reply.
"Can you paint sometimes in the morning and keep shop in the evening ?" "Yes, seh." Minor details were arranged on the spot.

Raoul dismissed the black boy, took off his coat and fell to work decanting something, with the understanding that his salary, a microscopic one, should begin from date if his cousin should recommend him.
"'Sieur Frowenfel'," he called from under the counter, later in the day, "you t'ink it would be hanny disgrace to paint de pigshoe of a niggah ?" "Certainly not." "Ah, my soul! what a pigshoe I could paint of Bras-Coupe!" We have the afflatus in Louisiana, if nothing else..