Be patient.

I promise you your patience shall not be overtaxed.

To-day they say that you presume; that you are not one of them--although, by my soul, you have as good an air as any nobleman in France." And he eyed the lean height of the secretary with a glance of such pride as a father might take in a well-grown son.
Elegant of figure, La Boulaye was no less elegant in dress, for all that, from head to foot--saving the silver buckles on his shoes and the unpretentious lace at throat and wrists--he was dressed in the black that his office demanded.

His countenance, too, though cast in a mould of thoughtfulness that bordered on the melancholy, bore a lofty stamp that might have passed for birth and breeding, and this was enhanced by the careful dressing of his black unpowdered hair, gathered into a club by a broad ribbon of black silk.
"But what shall waiting avail me ?" cried the young man, with some impatience.

"What am I to do in the meantime ?" "Go to Amiens," said the other.