There we sat one each side of him in cane armchairs.

He ordered the drinks, and paid for them.
"First I will tell you who I am," he said, when he had swallowed a foot-long whisky peg and wiped his lips with his coat sleeve.

"I never boast.

I don't need to! I am Georges Coutlass! I learned that you have an English lord among your party, and said I to myself 'Aha! There is a man who will appreciate me, who am a citizen of three lands!' Which of you gentlemen is the lord ?" "How can you be a citizen of three countries ?" Fred countered.
"Of Greece, for I was born in Greece.

I have fought Turks.