What have you done with your wife ?" "My wife ?" said Philippe, with a gesture, look, and accent which Frederick Lemaitre was inspired to use in one of his most terrible parts.

"Alas! I have the melancholy certainty of losing her.

She has not a week to live.

My dear duke, you don't know what it is to marry beneath you.

A woman who was a cook, and has the tastes of a cook! who dishonors me--ah! I am much to be pitied.