But what you say is true, Home; and if I had to remain at court, I suppose I should have to set to work at once to cultivate some affectation or other to counteract this simplicity of which you speak.
However, thank goodness, I do not suppose that I shall stay here long.
At any rate, it is lucky that I purchased a new court suit before I started to join the Duke of Enghien.

Coming from Viscount Turenne I thought that I was bound to make a good figure among the crowd of young nobles round Enghien, but it made a large hole in my savings." "Do you mean to say that you had savings ?" one of the other officers exclaimed.

"Who ever heard of such a thing?
I never have a pistole left in my pocket a week after I get my month's pay." "It is a very different thing living in Susa to living in Paris," Hector laughed.

"I can assure you that I never spent more than half my pay; but living was dearer down in Roussillon.

Things have been in such a disturbed state there for years that the country was well nigh a desert; and though my two comrades and I messed together, the living cost twice as much as it did at Susa.