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"Very much," said I, somewhat surprised at the nature of the interrogatory. "Perhaps you would wish it altered in some way?" rejoined the lady. "Non mille remercimens!" said I "you are very good to be so interested in my accommodation." "Those curtains might be better arranged that sofa replaced with a more elegant one," continued my new superintendant.
If, indeed, your excellency imagines that I ought to be contented with honorary distinctions alone, however highly I may prize them as the free gift of his Imperial Majesty; if your excellency is of opinion that I ought with "remercimens et satisfaction" to put up with those honours in lieu of those stipulated substantial rewards, which even those very honours render more necessary; if your excellency thinks that I ought, like the dog in the fable, to resign the substance for a grasp at the shadow; if this is all that your excellency knows on the subject of giving me content, it is then very true that your excellency does not know in what manner it is to be done.
"Very much," said I, somewhat surprised at the nature of the interrogatory. "Perhaps you would wish it altered in some way?" rejoined the lady. "Non mille remercimens!" said I "you are very good to be so interested in my accommodation." "Those curtains might be better arranged that sofa replaced with a more elegant one," continued my new superintendant.
But as my present object has been chiefly to repel those imputations in which your excellency has so freely indulged, and believing that I have fully succeeded in that object, and have shown clearly that your excellency has unjustly and untruly accused me of encouraging talebearers, making unfounded complaints, and of being of a nature so avaricious as never to be satisfied which latter, by-the-by, is an extraordinary accusation to prefer against me a man whom your excellency must know has not hitherto been benefited, after being more than a year in the service, to the amount of one shilling for the important services he has rendered, but who, on the contrary, as he can show by his accounts, has necessarily expended more in his official situation than he has received in the service; so that the "remercimens" and the "satisfaction," which your excellency accuses him of being deficient in, can scarcely yet be due, unless it is proper to be satisfied and grateful too for less than nothing having, I say, fully repelled and refuted these unjust accusations, I shall avoid troubling your excellency with any further detail.
[Footnote A: "Je fais toujours mille remercimens plus empressés et plus affectueux
Royston did not seem in the least inclined to smile; had he done so Armand would have been bitterly disappointed. As it was, he answered very coldly, without a shade of consciousness on his face. "Un compliment mérite toujours des remercimens, M. le Vicomte, même quand on ne le comprend pas. Pardon, si je vous engage, de ne pas expliquer plus clairement votre allégorie."
[Footnote A: Je fais toujours mille remercimens plus empressés et plus affectueux
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