"Gad! I wish I could say that I should not be afraid myself under similar circumstances.

My heart was in my mouth, I can tell you, in that cabin when de Gemosac blurted it all out.

It came suddenly at the end, and--well!--it rather hit one in the wind.

And, as I say, one is not a Bourbon for nothing.

You come into a heritage, eight hundred years old, of likes and dislikes, of genius and incapacity, of an astounding cleverness, and a preposterous foolishness without compare in the history of dynasties.