He is excellent as a waiter and valet; I should feel almost lost without him now; and the clumping about of an English man servant would annoy me as much as his noiseless way of going about did at first.

He has come to speak English very fairly.

Of course, my brother always talked to him in his own tongue; still, he had picked up enough English for me to get on with; now he speaks it quite fluently.

When I have nothing whatever for him to do he devotes himself to my little ward.

She is very fond of him, and it is quite pretty to see them together in the garden.