but

"But you were in. 🔊

It occurred to me that "hungry" was perhaps the mot juste for him; buthungry 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. 🔊

But I was not offended. 🔊

"No, of course not. But—" 🔊

My name wasn't in the index, butyes!" 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." 🔊

It is of Soames that there will be but the semblance. 🔊

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