"Quite my own."
"And the narrative is true?"
"Strictly so, I believe."
"Even to your meeting with the Duc D'Enghien. It was purely accidental?"
"That is, I never knew him to be the duke till the moment of his arrest?"
"Just so; you thought he was merely a royalist noble. Then, why did you not address a memoir to that effect to the minister?"
"I thought it would be useless; when they made so little of a Condé, what right had I to suppose they would think much about me?"
"If he could have proved his innocence"—he stopped, and then in an altered voice said—"but as to this memoir, you assume considerable airs of military knowledge in it, and many of the opinions smack of heads older than yours."
"They are, I repeat, my own altogether; as to their presumption, I have already told you they were intended solely for my own eye."
"So that you are not a royalist?"