"This is very sad.

The man looked quite a gentleman, I assure you.

And he had not the least semblance to a foreigner.

His name, too--John D.Curtis--is your lordship really certain of the facts ?" Now, "John" and "Jean" are sufficiently alike in sound to pass muster with the average man, who also connotes no difference between "D" and "de," but the Earl was moved to say quickly: "Perhaps you are not accustomed to French names, Mr.Hughes ?" "No, I admit it.

But, here is an unimpeachable witness," and the minister produced the license from a drawer in the writing-desk.
Lord Valletort glanced at it, and a peculiarly unpleasant scowl convulsed his aristocratic features.