What have you been doing since I left you this morning ?" "I spent a part of the time in the lantern of the Basilica on Montmartre, and I had with me a most interesting friend." Lannes looked at him curiously.
"You did not speak of any friend in Paris at this time," he said.
"I didn't because I never heard of him until a few hours ago.

I made his acquaintance while I was going up Montmartre, but I already consider him, next to you, the best friend I have in France." "Acquaintanceship seems to grow rapidly with you, Monsieur Jean the Scott." "It has, but you must remember that our own friendship was pretty sudden.

It developed in a few minutes of flight from soldiers at the German border." "That is so, but it was soon sealed by great common dangers.

Who is your new friend, John ?" "A little Apache named Pierre Louis Bougainville, whom I have nicknamed Geronimo, after a famous Indian chief of my country.

He has already gone to fight for France, and, Philip, he made an extraordinary impression upon me, although I don't know just why.