"I am going to study medicine under an eminent French surgeon." "Indeed! Well, you could not go to a better school, or embrace a nobler profession.

I used to think a soldier's life the grandest under heaven; but curing is a finer thing than killing, after all! What a delicious evening, is it not?
If one were only in Paris, now, or Vienna,...." "What, Oscar Dalrymple!" exclaimed a voice close beside us.

"I should as soon have expected to meet the great Panjandrum himself!" "-- With the little round button at top," added my companion, tossing away the end of his cigar, and shaking hands heartily with the new-comer.

"By Jove, Frank, I'm glad to see you! What brings you here ?" "Business--confound it! And not pleasant business either.

_A proces_ which my father has instituted against a great manufacturing firm here at Rouen, and of which I have to bear the brunt.