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Why, you might have said -- Oh a great many things! Mon dieu, why waste your opportunity? For example, thus: AGGRESSIVE: I, sir, if that nose were mine, I'd have it amputated - on the spot! FRIENDLY: How do you drink with such a nose? You ought to have a cup made specially. DESCRIPTIVE: 'Tis a rock - a crag - a cape - A cape? say rather a peninsula! INQUISITIVE: What is that receptacle - A razor-case or a portfolio? KINDLY: Ah, do you love the little birds so much that they come and sing to you, you give them this to perch on? INSOLENT: Sir, when you smoke, the neighbours must suppose your chimney is on fire. ENTERPRISING: What a sign for some perfumer! SIMPLE: When do they unveil the monument?
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