new

And Dorothy oiled them and the Scarecrow bent them carefully until they were quite free from rust and as good as new.

“Don’t mind Toto,” said Dorothy to her new friend.

“I feel like a new man.”

“True,” replied the marquise, without wincing in the slightest degree at the tragic remembrance thus called up; “but bear in mind, if you please, that our respective parents underwent persecution and proscription from diametrically opposite principles; in proof of which I may remark, that while my family remained among the staunchest adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that while the Citizen Noirtier was a Girondin, the Count Noirtier became a senator.”