Billets-doux from the great Louis to the Montespan, perhaps?" "No, unfortunately they were of a much more recent date.

give you your billets de logement.

On the days on which this paper (which is called billets de confiance) is issued, the Hotel de Ville is besieged by a host of women collected from all parts of the districtPeasants, small shopkeepers, fervant maids, and though last, not least formidable fishwomen.

And because by now they had no slightest difficulty in making these billet inhabitants understand what they requireda fire for cooking, stretching space on a floor, the location of the nearest estaminets, whether eggs, butter, and bread were obtainable, and how much was the pricethey had fondly imagined in their hearts, and boasted loudly in their home letters, that they were quite satisfactorily conversant with the French language.

As soon as we were "dismissed," I started off on a billet search.

Though Alovisa in a second billet bids him aim at a higher mark, "he had said too many fine things to be lost," and continues his pursuit until Amena's father takes alarm and locks her up.

After this experience Cook would not run further risks, so made for a small uninhabited island where some vegetables were obtained and branches of trees, which, cut into short lengths, were eagerly eaten by the cattle, and Cook says: "It might be said, without impropriety, that we fed our cattle on billet wood."

What a parley-vooing and billet-dooing passed between us!

Billet-hunting on the Western Front is not quite so desperate an affair as hunting for lodgings at Margate, because in the last extremity you can always compel the inhabitants to take you inor at least, exert pressure to that end through the Mairie.