I have hunted for weeks.

I could hear nothing of him.

I came here before I gave it up as a hopeless search, and, as you know, I've been laid up ever since.

You have been kind to me, Madame; something makes me think I was not kept here for nothing.

Can you help me to find my friend ?" The landlady began to have inward misgivings that she had not behaved to this pleasant-spoken young guest of hers as nicely as she might have done, and she secretly resolved to revise the bill in his favour before presenting it.
"Why, Monsieur, I had plenty English in my time.