9/16 "The climate is of France so much to-night that I found it my duty to encourage it. My dear friend, scold not, but accept the compliment very seldom truthful to your native land. There are none of your clod-pates about to-night." "Come in at once. The mere sound of your breath is enough to set the neighbourhood wondering. Could I ever have been burdened with a more French Frenchman, though you speak as good English as I do ?" "It was all of that miserable Cheray," the French gentleman said, when they sat in the kitchen, and Jerry Bowles was feeding the fine black horse. |