Crossword-Solution: JOLI 4 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

And he broke forth into a song of Pierre Dupont’s:— “Savez-vous où gite, Mai, ce joli mois?” Elvira joined in; so did Stubbs, with a good ear and voice, but an imperfect acquaintance with the music.

There she stood, terror-stricken, petrified, like her who of old turned her back on Zoar and beheld the incandescent hurricane of hail smite the City of the Plain! She was dressed in white muslin, _joli comme un cœur_, with a myriad frills and flounces and knots of pale-coloured ribbon.

After listening with gratification to our repeated thanks, he bowed with the same grotesque flourish, and marched off as grave as a Spaniard, humming-- "Ce petit homme tant joli! Qui toujours cause et toujours rit, Qui toujours baise sa mignonne, Dieu gard' de mal ce petit homme!" On our going in, the landlord met us politely, but with curiosity, and a simmering of excitement also in his manner.

For the present, gentlemen, farewell!" He cocked his hat fiercely, and went off at speed the way we had ourselves been going; humming as he went, "Ce petit homme tant joli, Qui toujours cause et toujours rit, Qui toujours baise sa mignonne Dieu gard' de mal ce petit homme!" His reckless song came back to us on the summer breeze.

Madame Joubert came over and stood beside him, looking at him and at the rosier, "Oui, c'est joli, n'est-ce pas?" She took the scissors that hung by a ribbon from her belt, cut one of the flowers and stuck it in his buttonhole.