Brilliant, careless, selfish, yet good-natured vauriens, the Roman Emperor Gallienus and our Charles the Second excelled in every art save the art of reigning, and might have excelled in that also if they would have taken the trouble.

But whom shall we meet there?' 'The Lavingtons, and Vieuxbois, and Vaurien, and a parson or two, I suppose.

I didn't want they a-robbing here; so I think they worked mainly up Squire Vaurien's water.'

He is a complete vaurien.

'The fool hath said in his heart'is in English: "the worthless fellow ('vaurien') hath taken it into his head," &c. Ib.

These were thy words, vaurien.

She had always expressed a great devotion for St. Jean; and the Sisters of the Hospital had been very kind to her, and also to her vaurien of a son, who was indeed, in some manner, the occasion of all our troublesbeing the first who complained of the opening of the chapel into the chief ward, which was closed up by the administration, and thus became, as I and many others think, the cause of all the calamities that have come upon us.

she married a vaurien acrobat who had taken her off to America, where she had died last year.

GÉNÉREUX À BON MARCHÉ Un jeune vaurien, qui espérait hériter un jour de son oncle, voulait le sonder un peu pour savoir les chances qu'il courait de réaliser son ambition.

VAURIEN, m., personne de nulle valeur.

Surely, the result of system can no farther go than this,that Monsieur Vaurien's moral sense, like his opinions, should be absorbed and overruled by the governing powers.