Crossword-Solution: MOTS 4 letters, 46 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Three mots on this bugle will, I am assured, bring round, at our need, a jolly band of yonder honest yeomen.” “I would say, Heaven forefend,” said the Jester, “were it not that that fair gift is a pledge they would let us pass peaceably.” “Why, what meanest thou?” said the Knight; “thinkest thou that but for this pledge of fellowship they would assault us?” “Nay, for me I say nothing,” said Wamba; “for green trees have ears as well as stone walls.

All this was a brilliant monologue on the part of the duchess, who, like many of her country-women, was a person of an affirmative rather than an interrogative cast of mind, who made _mots_ and put them herself into circulation, and who was apt to offer you a present of a convenient little opinion, neatly enveloped in the gilt paper of a happy Gallicism.

Nobody can possibly care for Delobelle with his “Il faut lutter pour l’art,” or for Valmajour with his eternal refrain about the nightingale, or for the poet in _Jack_ with his “mots cruels,” now that we have learned from _Vingt Ans de ma Vie littéraire_ that these characters were taken directly from life.

His impressions of the men and events of his time, his fund of anecdotes and _bon mots_, his references to trivial matters, which more dignified writers would never deign to mention, his sprightly and sometimes malicious gossip, invest his period with a reality which the greatest of fiction-writers has failed to rival.

But all _bon mots_ aside, would you care to join us this afternoon in a ride around the city? If you say the word, _voila!_ we shall be at your hotel in our automobile and I think that you will find here much that is interesting to a native of Lafayette’s great country and especially to a citizen of Paris.