Explore "The Tiger-Slayer" by Gustave Aimard on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The silence began to grow embarrassing to all, and the count speedily noticed this. As a thorough gentleman, accustomed to command immediately the most exceptional and difficult positions, he rose, walked toward the stranger with outstretched hand, and turning to his officers, --
"Gentlemen," he said, with a peculiar inflection of voice, and bowing courteously, "allow me to present to you this _caballero_, whose name I am not yet acquainted with, but who, from what he has himself said, is one of my most intimate enemies."