Favori

Into the bargain with Marie, the American girl, who is grace itself, and comes leaping and dancing simply like a wave—like nothing else, and who yesterday was Queen out of the Epiphany cake and chose Robinet (the French Painter) as her favori with the most pretty confusion possible—into the bargain with Marie, we have two little Russian girls, with the youngest of whom, a little polyglot button of a three-year old, I had the most laughable little scene at lunch to-day.

With characteristic humour, Ninon divided her admirers into three classes: her martyrs, her caprices and her favoris, and into one or other of these classes fell nearly every gallant in Paris.

Observers of his behavior were quick to note the inner conflict as revealed by the king's inability to be separated from his favori, and his cutting remarks about "King Luynes" in the heat of the siege warfare of 1621.

Even more distinguished were the martyrs, enjoying her company without paying for it and maintaining the hope, however remote, of some day becoming her favori.

M. de Whiskerburg was a very young man, very tall, with a very fine figure, and very fine features. In short, a sort of Hungarian Apollo; only his beard, his mustachios, his whiskers, his favoris, his padishas, his sultanas, his mignonettas, his dulcibellas, did not certainly entitle him to the epithet of imberbis, and made him rather an after-representative of the Hungarian Hercules.

The Count twisted his favoris, twirled his moustaches, and bit his nether lip; then, taking up the Court Magazine, fixed his eyes on the portrait of the 'Hon. Frances Eleanor de Vere, Wentworth, St. Leger,' and muttered in an audible apostrophe, "How lovely! and how like!"

My normal condition is what my Broad-Church friend—that is, my quandam friend, for I have cut him—termed 'shoulder of mutton,' though I never heard of a should of mutton being soft and silky like my favoris.

Carefully combing out his favoris with a broken comb and greasing them with perfumed pomade flat over his sunken cheekbones, he fairly wriggled with his new sense of security and bodily comfort.