"“Let me reflect a little! Ay, that will do--at Armentières.”

“Where is that Armentières?”

“A little town on the Lys; I shall only have to cross the river, and I shall be in a foreign country.”


In WWI, the doughboys sang "Mademoiselle from Armentiers,
hasn't been xxxxxx in forty years, Hinky Dinky parlez vous!"

Maybe it increased in size from time of this story to WWI.