He added, 'As a Pole, I am for Turkey.' "'I believed,' said I, 'that the Poles had sympathy with all the oppressed.' "'Poles,' he replied, 'cannot like those who like their oppressors, and they cannot forget that the Osmanlis are their natural allies, and, on occasions, their refuge.' "I gave him Antoinette's letter to read.

I was very glad, at any hazard, to prove to him that she could write four pages without asking about him.

He read it with extreme attention: but when he came to the famous passage--'If I were a man, I would go and fight for them!'-- he smiled, and returned me the letter, saying, in a disdainful and rather a dry tone: "'Write for me to Mlle.

Moriaz that I believe I am a man, yet that I will not fight for the Bosnians, and that the Turks are my greatest friends.' "'She is foolish,' I said.

'Fortunately, she changes her folly with every new moon!' "'What would you have ?' he replied; 'in order not to be insipid, it is well to be a little foolish.