And besides, this is France; even a Turk is harmless here.

Monsieur the Black Kettle speaks French and is a devout Catholic." "A Catholic ?" incredulously.
"Aye, pious and abstemious," with a sly glance at the innkeeper, who was known to love his wines in proportion to his praise of them.
"The patience of these Jesuits!" the host murmured, breathing a long sigh, such as one does from whose shoulders a weight has been suddenly lifted.

"Ah, Messieurs, but your joke frightened me cruelly.

And they call him the Black Kettle?
But perhaps they will stay at the episcopal palace, that is, if the host from Dieppe arrives to-night.

And who taught him French ?" "Father Chaumonot, who knows his Indian as a Turk knows his Koran." "And does his Majesty intend to make Frenchmen of these savages ?" "They are already Frenchmen," was the answer.