I therefore summed them up in the only word.

Captain Vauvenarde! The wild goose of my absurd chase! Found by this Flibbertigibbet of a fellow, while I, Simon de Gex, erstwhile M.P., was fooling about War Offices and regiments! It was grotesque.

It was monstrous.

It ought not to have been allowed.

And yet it saved me a vast amount of trouble.
"I'm damned!" said I.
Anastasius had just enough English to understand.