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[Footnote 434: On the capture of Oswego, the authorities examined have been very numerous, and only the best need be named. Livre d'Ordres, Campagne de 1756, contains all orders from headquarters. Mémoires pour servir d'Instruction
DON EDUARDO. ¡Hola! VECINA. Como usted lo oye ... y a fe que lo acierta ... para eso es casi un empleado ... con siete reales y lo que cae ... guarda de a caballo, para servir a usted y a Dios.... Ea, quédense ustedes con él. DON EDUARDO. ¿Con su marido de usted?
And thus, at Madrid in 1836, he told his story on the first meeting, as men had to do when they were interrogated by Borrow: "Upon my asking him who he was, the following conversation ensued between us: "'I am a Swiss of Lucerne, Benedict Mol by name, once a soldier in the Walloon Guard, and now a soap-boiler, para servir usted.
Leonora answered in the words of a celebrated great man: "C'est facile de se servir de pareils moyens; c'est difficile de s'y resoudre." "But if no other means would succeed," said I, "would not you sacrifice your pride to your love?" "My pride, willingly; but not my sense of what is right," said she, with an indescribable mixture of tenderness and firmness in her manner.
French literature is especially rich in a class of biographic memoirs, of which we have few counterparts in English. We refer to their MEMOIRES POUR SERVIR, such as those of Sully, De Comines, Lauzun, De Retz, De Thou, Rochefoucalt, &c., in which we have recorded an immense mass of minute and circumstantial information relative to many great personages of history.
They rest in peace now, but when they lived they were the shrewdest traders of their day. Of wool, cries the poet Gower, O leine, dame de noblesce Tu est des marchantz la duesse, Pour toy servir tout sont enclin 'O wool, noble dame, thou art the goddess of merchants, to serve thee they are all ready; by thy good fortune and thy wealth thou makest some mount high, and others thou bringest to ruin.
Réaumur, Memoires pour servir
But when all the commotion and the din have died away, as indeed in a great measure they have already done, these fiery diatribes, these burning lava-streams, will be of little more importance than the dustiest "mémoires pour servir" materials from which the historian, with much smoothing down and apologies for the pyrotechnics of a past age, will take here and there a vivid touch to illustrate his theories or brighten his narrative.
It is thus clearly stated in the letter, that he had not been there before. It was impossible that he could have, consummated two voyages to America, and another to England, and made his court to the king, after 1524, and before his last and fatal cruize along the coast of Spain, as would have been necessary to have been done. "Memoires chronologiques pour servir a l'histoire de Dieppe," I. 100.
[Footnote 1: On the whole chapter cf. Damiron, Mémoires pour Servir
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