The French are a brave and honest people, none braver or more honest.

I tell you so, because I know them, but their government is corrupt through and through.

The House of Bourbon is dying of its own poison.

It may seem strange to you, hearing me say it here in the Western world, so far from Versailles, but I'm not the only one who says so." "But I like Quebec," said Robert.

"I haven't seen another city that speaks to the eye so much." They were now well into the Upper Town, and the porter guided them to the Inn of the Eagle, where Monsieur Paul Berryer, the host, gave them a welcome, and from whom they learned that the Governor General, the Marquis Duquesne, was absent in the east, but would return in two or three days.