But if it once gets talked about that a French officer is with me, these stupid people will awake their suspicions more strongly by their own stupidity.

In this queer island you may do what you like till the neighbourhood turns against you; and then, if you revolve upon a pin, you cannot suit them.

You understand?
You have heard me before.

It is this that I never can knock into you." Renaud Charron, who considered himself--as all Frenchmen did then, and perhaps do now--far swifter of intellect than any Englishman, found himself not well pleased at this, and desired to know more about it.
"Nothing can be simpler," the Englishman replied; "and therefore nothing surer.

You know the old proverb--'Everything in turn, except scandal, whose turn is always.' And again another saying of our own land--'The second side of the bread takes less time to toast.' We must not let the first side of ours be toasted; we will shun all the fire of suspicion.
And to do this, you must not be seen, my dear friend.