I've been with him for years, Captain de Galisonniere, and all the useful arts he knows he has tried long and continuously to teach to me." "Then you mean that the sword you now wear at your thigh is a weapon and not an ornament ?" "Primarily, yes, but before we go further into the matter of the sword, I wish to ask you a favor." "Ask a dozen, Lennox.

We've been companions of the voyage and your quarrel with de Mezy does not arouse any hostility in me." "I felt that it was so, and for that reason I ask the favor.

We are strangers in Quebec.

We did not come here to seek trouble with anybody, and so I ask you to be a second for me in this affair with de Mezy.

Dave and Tayoga, of course, would act, but at the present juncture, ours being an errand of peace and not of war, I'd prefer Frenchmen." "Gladly I'll serve you, Lennox, since you indicate that you're a swordsman and are not going to certain death, and I'll bring with me in the morning a trusty friend, Armand Glandelet, one of our _honnetes gens_ who likes de Mezy as little as I do." "I thank you much, my good friend.