"In half an hour's time we depart." I obeyed him, setting about the task of filling my saddle-bags with my few possessions.

He watched me in silence for awhile.

At last he spoke.
"I have chosen you to go with me," he said, "because although you know a thing, you don't speak of it, and although you see a thing, you can appear blind." I remembered that Madame thought my blindness deficient, but I received the compliment in silence.
"These great qualities," he pursued, "make a man's fortune.

You shall come with me to Paris." "To Paris, sir ?" "Yes.

I'll find work for you there, and those who do my work lack neither reward nor honour.