Both had coats of arms on their seal-rings, so that no one might be ignorant of their rank as nobles.

Fougas was too plebeian to fancy the nobility much; but as he had left a compartment full of Britons, he was happy to meet a couple of Frenchmen.
"Friends," said he, inclining toward them with a cordial smile, "we are children of the same mother.

Long life to you! Your appearance revives me." The two young gentlemen opened their eyes very wide, half bowed, and resumed their conversation, without making any other response to Fougas' advance.
"Well, then, my dear Astophe," said one, "you saw the king at Froshdorf ?" "Yes, my good Americ; and he received me with the most affecting condescension.

'Vicomte,' said he to me, 'you come of a house well known for its fidelity.

We will remember you when God replaces us on the throne of our ancestors.