I think you should do this without a moment's hesitation, as I and my people at Kaskaskia have already done.

But perhaps you would like to have a word from your distinguished fellow-citizen, Monsieur Gaspard Roussillon.

Speak to your friends, my son, they will be glad to take counsel of your wisdom." There was a stir and a craning of necks.

M.Roussillon presently appeared near the little chancel, his great form towering majestically.
He bowed and waved his hand with the air of one who accepts distinction as a matter of course; then he took his big silver watch and looked at it.

He was the only man in Vincennes who owned a watch, and so the incident was impressive.