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'I take that for granted: in the nature of things it can hardly be otherwise, I replied, a good deal startled and perplexed by the curious audacity of her interrogatory. 'It was very foolish of me to expect from Mr. Wylder's friend any other answer; you are very loyal, Mr. De Cresseron.
A third lady, at what would have been an ordinary room's length away, half reclining on an ottoman, was now approached by Wylder, who presented me to Miss Brandon. 'Dorcas, this is my old friend, Charles de Cresseron. You have often heard me speak of him; and I want you to shake hands and make his acquaintance, and draw him out do you see; for he's a shy youth, and must be encouraged.
When your humble servant, Charles de Cresseron, the compiler of this narrative, was a boy some fourteen years old how long ago precisely that was, is nothing to the purpose, 'tis enough to say he remembers what he then saw and heard a good deal better than what happened a week ago it came to pass that he was spending a pleasant week of his holidays with his benign uncle and godfather, the curate of Chapelizod.
So there was a pause; and then she said, without, however, removing her eyes from the miniature, 'You are, I believe, Mr. De Cresseron, a very old friend of Mr. Wylder's. Is it not so? So soon after my little escapade, I did not like the question; but it was answered.
'You seem to be very sensible, Mr. De Cresseron; pray tell me, frankly, what do you think of all this? 'I am not quite sure, Miss Brandon, that I understand your question, I replied, enquiringly. 'I mean of the the family arrangements, in which, as Mr. Wylder's friend, you seem to take an interest? she said.
We meet with John Le Fanu de Sequeville and Charles Le Fanu de Cresseron, as cavalry officers in William the Third's army; Charles being so distinguished a member of the King's staff that he was presented with William's portrait from his master's own hand. He afterwards served as a major of dragoons under Marlborough.
'Will you give me just a minute, Mr. De Cresseron, in the drawing-room, while I show you a miniature? I want your opinion. So she floated on and I accompanied her. 'I think, she said, 'you mentioned yesterday, that you remembered me when an infant. You remember my poor mamma, don't you, very well?
A noble Huguenot family, owning considerable property in Normandy, the Le Fanus of Caen, were, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, deprived of their ancestral estates of Mandeville, Sequeville, and Cresseron; but, owing to their possessing influential relatives at the court of Louis the Fourteenth, were allowed to quit their country for England, unmolested, with their personal property.
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