He patronises generals and admirals, doctors and commissariat officers, and they submit to be patronised by him.

Half-priest, half-buffoon, something of a Friar Tuck and something of a Louis XV.
abbe, he is a sort of privileged person, who by the mere force of impudence has made his way in the world.

Most English girls in their teens fall in love with a curate and a cavalry officer.

Monseigneur Bauer, who combines in himself the unctuous curate and the dashing dragoon, is adored by the fair sex in Paris.

He knows how to adapt his conversation to the most opposite kind of persons, and I should not be surprised if he becomes a Cardinal before he dies.
The arrival of Dr.Ricord was the next event.