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'I have the pleasure of addressing Monsieur le Vicomte Anne de Keroual de Saint-Yves? said he. 'Well, said I, 'I do not call myself all that; but I have a right to, if I chose. In the meanwhile I call myself plain Champdivers, at your disposal. It was my mother's name, and good to go soldiering with. 'I think not quite, said he; 'for if I remember rightly, your mother also had the particle.
I do not say they can avail!" "Who can say that, M. de Saint-Yves?" she said softly. "But I think it is time we should be going." On the way back, as I was laying myself out to recover lost ground with the youth, and to obliterate, if possible, the memory of my last and somewhat too fervent speech, who should come past us but the major!
She looked at me with what seemed anger. 'I tell you the man stared, she said. And Ronald added. 'Oh, I don't think he meant any harm. I suppose he was just surprised to see us walking about with a pr with M. Saint-Yves. But the next morning, when I went to Chevenix's rooms, and after I had dutifully corrected his exercise 'I compliment you on your taste, said he to me.
From him I learned that my uncle was extremely low, a doctor in close attendance, Mr. Romaine expected at any moment, and that my cousin, the Vicomte de Saint-Yves, had been sent for the same morning. "It was a sudden seizure, then?" I asked. Well, he would scarcely go as far as that. It was a decline, a fading away, sir; but he was certainly took bad the day before, had sent for Mr.
I cried, "does M. de Kéroual de Saint-Yves remember the existence of such a person as myself, and will he deign to count kinship with a soldier of Napoleon?" "You speak English well," observed my visitor. "It has been a second language to me from a child," said I. "I had an English nurse; my father spoke English with me; and I was finished by a countryman of yours and a dear friend of mine, a Mr.
"Vicomte Anne de Saint-Yves," said I, in answer to the man's question; whereupon he bowed before me lower still, and stepping upon one side introduced me to the truly awful presence of the major-domo. I have seen many dignitaries in my time, but none who quite equalled this eminent being; who was good enough to answer to the unassuming name of Dawson.
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