He can swear very well in English, not the unctuous, brutal oaths of the American or Englishman, for even a Parisian gaminhas taste, but English oaths lose none of their strength in him.
The Parisian, gamin or marquis, will have no bad music or acting.
One of the great chocolate manufacturers, whose name is known wherever there is civilization, who counts his residences by the dozen, and his wealth by millions, was a gamintill he was eighteen.
The Parisian gamin hates the authorities, for his chief idea is that the name means a prison, police, and everything else that a brigand in a small way don't like.
The gamin grows, as a rule, into a vagabond, the vagabond into a criminal, and the criminal either ends at the guillotine or in the prison hospital.
The Parisian gamin can do nothing of this kind--indeed, it is impossible in Paris, and he would not want to do it if it were possible.
The gamin of Paris is deserving of more credit than thegamin of New York, for he has nothing especially cheerful before him.
To him this desertion from a life of vagabondage was a betrayal, as it were, and he felt, actually, a supreme pity for the gamin who could be anything else for so small a consideration as a comfortable life.
No Frenchman would ever think of chaffing a gamin twice, for he knows by bitter experience that the gamin always gets the best of it, and the first and last time he tried it he retired with everybody laughing but himself and the boy.
The Parisian actor dreads the gamin almost as much as he does the newspaper critics.
No one ever heard of a Parisian grown-up gamin attempting to control railroads, or build steamships, or anything of the sort.
The gamin raised in his little arms Javert's enormous musket, resolutely aimed at the giant, and pulled the trigger.
The gamin approached this pensive man, and began walking round him on tiptoe, in the same way as people move round a man whom they are afraid of awaking.
For an hour past the gamin had been making in this peaceful district the noise of a fly in a bottle.
Enjolras hurriedly left the gamin and whispered a few words to a laborer from the wine-docks who was present.
Gavroche felt his gaminentrails moved with pity for the old gentleman.
In these early days, he felt that the king was in his power, so afraid was his majesty of the queen and court knowing about his lock-making, and Gamin having it in his power to tell, any day.
He not only endured this treatment, but entrusted Gamin with various secret commissions, which were sometimes of great importance.
The account which Gamingave of the king was that he was kind and forbearing, timid, inquisitive, and very apt to go to sleep.
Gamin was a vulgar-minded man; and he treated the king ill, both at this time, and after adversity had overtaken the royal family.
Gamin afterwards publicly informed the enemies of the king of this cupboard, and moreover swore that the king attempted to poison him when it was done, that the secret might be safe.
I'll get my check from the Gamin on Saturday," said Grief.
The joy of the Princess on seeing me safe again brought tears into her eyes; and, when I related the scene I played off before Gamin against my servant, she laughed most heavily.
While Gamin was still by I discharged the bill at the house, got into my carriage, and took the road towards Calais.
Now tell His Majesty, yourself, what Gaminsaid to you.
The man being tutored in his part, begged Gamin to plead for my intercession with our mistress.
Gamin was sent for to look at the locks, and received six francs for his opinion.
In telling me of this boy, Minturn confessed that he was forced, forced mind you, to see his sons ruined, while he is building a street gamin as he would them, if permitted.
The whole barricade uttered a cry, but there was an Antæus in this pygmy: for a gamin to touch the pavement is like the giant touching the earth; and Gavroche had only fallen to rise again.
She forgot her refinement and the ladylike solemnity of her face gave place to a gamin smile.
The gamin managed, in some fashion of his own, to combine, in a single movement, a snatch at the money with a gesture of polite deprecation.
While he read it the boy watched him with the admiration which, in Paris, even the rat-like gamin of the streets pays to distinction such as his.
It was much the same as a history of a London pavement, with this exception, that the gamin had a mother to whom he presented me without undue formality.
No, no; I learnt his history, the history of a gamin of fifteen or thereabouts.
The Trafalgar Square gamin disappeared, and at last my sea-urchin stood before me.
It will be remembered that little Gavroche, the gamin in "Les Miserables," came to his death on a barricade in the streets of Paris.
A newspaper gaminof eight, who looked five, had such an engaging little visage that I gave him a penny.
No two of these little gamin faces were alike, and I recalled that I had made the same observation when traveling in the trains with the officers.
A gamin who had seen this burst into a peal of laughter, which rattled harshly in the silent street.
A few women muffled in tattered military capes crept along the frozen pavement, and a wretchedly clad gamin hovered over the sewer-hole on the corner of the Boulevard.
Slowly and with great deliberation, a small gaminpicked himself out of the gutter and surveyed Trent with disgust.
The speaker was one known in the regiment as Petit Picpon, who had begun life as a gamin of Paris, and now bade fair to make one of the most brilliant of the soldiers of Africa.
The gamin likes a commotion, and any violent condition pleases him.
If Adamastor were to appear to him, the gamin would say, "Hilloh, old Bogy!
A gamin is born to be a slater, as another is to be a sailor, and he is no more frightened at a roof than at a mast.
The titi is to the gamin as the butterfly to the chrysalis,--the same being, but now flying and hovering.
The gamin in a perfect state is acquainted with all the police of Paris, and when he meets one, can always give a name to his face.
Don't quarrel about your basket," a gamin shouted to them.
He was the gamin turned pickpocket, and the pickpocket had become a garroter.
The fist is no small element of success, and one of the things which a gamin is very fond of saying is, "I am precious strong.
The gaminexpresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world.
The gamin loves the town, but he loves solitude as well, for there is something of the sage in him: he is urbis amator like Fuscus, and ruris amator like Flaccus.
The gaminis a grace for a nation, and at the same time a malady,--a malady which must be cured.
The Parisian gamin is respectful, ironical, and insolent.
In a word, thegamin is a being who amuses himself because he is unhappy.
I shouldn't be surprised, Florence, if nobody ever got to know how much Gamin cost.
It was hergamin past we had forgotten, Phil and I, when we agonized over Susan's inexperienced youth.
The gamin bounced up and took charge of Jadiver, leading him to a small workshop screened off in a corner of one of the larger rooms.
Jadiver inspected it thoroughly, thegamin standing impatiently at his side.
The gaminin the gutter may be a necessity, but the gamin in discussion is a nuisance.
Perhaps the School Board will teach the London gaminhis own artistic value, and then they will be better models than they are now.
Gamin hid it in a part of the Chateau inaccessible to everybody, and took it from under the shelves of a secret press before our eyes.
Gamin took upon himself the tone and authority of a master.
Sparrer's eyes were round with indignation, for even a street gamin has better ethics than this.
But that was when he was Sparrer Muldoon, street gamin and champion scrapper of the gang; with no higher ethics than the right of might.
As a rule, he or she can maunder about and fight and scream and exchange badinage and throw stones in the gutter, but of true games the gamin is as ignorant as his parents are of entrees or Euclid.
And so a little gamin was pointed out to us at a Happy Evening, prancing about in the martial and metallic raiment which had lately enclosed the person of another boy--the future King of England.
Monsieur mon gamin d'Alfred," George Sand called him at that time.
Can you imagine yourself letting a New York, or Paris, or London street gamin carry your purse for three hours?
After all, you are better off, little kiddie, a thousand fold, than if you were a street gamin in the vicious gutters of New York.
