← It occurred to me that "hungry" was perhaps the mot juste for him; but—hungry for what? 🔊
← But it is the best I can find. 🔊
← I was sure he was not an Englishman, but what was his nationality? 🔊
← I gathered that this was his first visit to the Vingtième; but Berthe was offhand in her manner to him: he had not made a good impression. 🔊
← My name wasn't in the index, but—yes!" he said with a sudden change of tone, "that's what I'd forgotten. 🔊
← But for that I mightn't have noticed my own name." 🔊