Sailors seem always to be lighthearted, and he certainly is no exception." "He is a splendid fellow, count." "Yes, he is a fine fellow; but you see, he is seven or eight years older than I am, while I feel with you that you are about my own age.

By the way, it is high time that we dropped calling each other by our surnames, especially as mine is such a long one; so in future let us be' Henri' and 'Leigh 'to each other.

Most of the peasants call me Henri." "They generally speak of you as 'our Henri,'" Leigh said, "and would follow you through fire and water.

I think the Vendeans are, as a whole, serious people; and they admire you all the more because you are so unlike themselves.

If you do not mind my saying so, you remind me much more of the young English officers I used to meet, at Poole, than of Frenchmen." "Yes, I have often been told that I am more English than French in appearance, and perhaps in manner; for in France most men have forgotten, for the past four years, what it is to smile; and I question whether a laugh would not be considered, in itself, sufficient to ensure a man's condemnation as an enemy of the Republic.
"Well, so we are going to Saumur! That is an enterprise worth undertaking.