The five took no notice of him.
Alvarez gave to the Governor General a military salute, which Galvez returned in like fashion.

Then the captain sat down in a chair near the Governor General, and the latter said, maintaining his judicial tone: "Those against whom you made the complaint last night are here, Don Francisco.

Will you state again the charges?
It is but fair that they should hear and make reply, if they can." He spoke in English that the five might understand, and Alvarez replied in the same language.
"Your Excellency," he said, and his tone seemed frank, open, and convincing--the five were amazed that he could have such a truthful look and manner of injured innocence--"you know that I have been a most faithful guardian of the interests of our master, the King.

I have done long and hard service in the far north, in a wilderness infested by hostile savages." "No one doubts your courage and endurance, Don Francisco," said Bernardo Galvez.
"My devotion to Spain is the great passion of my life," continued Alvarez in a gratified tone.
"You know how jealously I have sought to guard against incursions from Kaintock.

The settlements of the Americans there are but two or three year old, yet these people press already upon the Mississippi and threaten His Majesty's territory of Louisiana." "I think that we wander a little from the subject," said Galvez, "It would be better to state the core of your complaint." Alvarez made a deprecating gesture.
"I deemed the preamble necessary to a full understanding of what has followed," he said.