"You speak good English. You have resided in England, I suppose, for a long while?"
"No, only a short time. Long enough to get a desire to go back there."
"That's very kind of you to say so. Your countrymen, as a rule, don't speak in such flattering terms of la perfide Albion."
"And yet they are glad enough to find a refuge there."
"True."
"Are you a native of Marseilles?" asked Harry.
"No."
"Then you are not offended at our remarks?"
"Not a bit," replied Lenoir heartily. "The Marseillais are absurdly conceited about their town, and after all it contains but few objects of interest for a traveller."
"Very few."