text:  The duke with whom you happen to have established a favouritism that would make you a chamberlain at the court of Brunswick if you were not assassinated previously by the envy of the other chamberlains or pinked by some lover of the "_dames d'honneur_ " was beginning to be uneasy about you; and as I had the peculiar good fortune of the Chevalier Marston's acquaintance I was sent to pick him up if he had fallen in honourable combat in the plains of Champagne or if any fragment of him were recoverable from the hands of the peasantry to preserve it for the family mausoleum