Pierre's mother, the little haberdasher, proud of her son, would she consent to give him up to a stranger?

By the divine power of poetry, therefore, which is irresistible with the lovely sex, did I subdue the heart of this fair little haberdasher.

For instance, Madame Menoux-youmust surely remember Madame Menoux, the little haberdasher close by-well, there was a woman now who never had any luck!

"It is something for a little haberdasher, kept by an old man, to be a barrister's wife-

"Your mother," went on Mascarin, "kept, for the last fifteen years of her life, a little haberdasher's shop."

"If you try to bribe me, you infernal little haberdasher, I'll have you off that horse and chuck you in the river."