That his father and his brother Laurence should accompany him was also to be expected.

But the other and more richly attired was somewhat less easy to be certified.

The Lord James of Douglas it was, who spoke French with the idiomatic use and easy accentuation of a native, albeit of those central provinces which had longest owned the sway of the King of France.

The brothers MacKim also spoke the language of the country after a fashion.

For many Frenchmen had come over to Galloway in the trains of the first two Dukes of Touraine, so that the Gallic speech was a common accomplishment among the youths who sighed to adventure where so many poor Scots had won fortune, in the armies of the Kings of France.
Indeed, throughout the centuries Paris cannot be other than Paris.