Stir yourself about supper," and walking in, I saluted, with all the courtesy at my command, a young gentleman of elegant appearance (so far as I could judge of him in traveller's garb) who sat at the table.
His greetings equalled mine in politeness, and we fell into talk on different matters, he using the English language, which he spoke with remarkable fluency, although evidently as a foreigner.

His manner was easy and assured, and I took it for no more than an accident that his pistol lay ready to his hand, beside a small case or pocket-book of leather on the table.

He asked me my business, and I told him simply that I was going in the Duke's train to Dover.
"Ah, to meet Madame the Duchess of Orleans ?" said he.

"I heard of her coming before I left France.

Her visit, sir, will give great pleasure to the King her brother." "More, if report speaks true, than to the Prince her husband," said I with a laugh.