"Your success depends upon yourself; you can have a palace, also," said Bonaparte, watching his
compatriot with a keen eye.
At this demand D'Artagnan gave his name very modestly, emphasized the title of
compatriot, and begged the servant who had put the question to him to request a moment's audience of M.
I am delighted to meet a
compatriot. Well, and what are we to do with this man?" he added, addressing himself to Pierre as to a brother.
"What a good deed you did yesterday to our poor
compatriot!" said the princess.
The other treated him at once to an exciting beverage, and expatiated on the pleasure of meeting a
compatriot in a foreign land; to hear him, you would have thought they had encountered in Central Africa.
Cropoli, in his character of a
compatriot, was indulgent towards Pittrino, which was the name of the artist.
The "family," for the rest, consists altogether of our beloved
compatriots, and of still more beloved Englanders.
"De Winter took us to the house of a Spaniard, who, he said, had become naturalized as an Englishman by the guineas of his new
compatriots. What do you say to it, Aramis?"
Concino Concini, and his wife Galligai, who subsequently shone at the French court, sought to Italianize the fashion, and introduced some Florentine tailors; but Percerin, touched to the quick in his patriotism and his self-esteem, entirely defeated these foreigners, and that so well that Concino was the first to give up his
compatriots, and held the French tailor in such esteem that he would never employ any other, and thus wore a doublet of his on the very day that Vitry blew out his brains with a pistol at the Pont du Louvre.
Whistler was an influence strong with the English and his
compatriots, and the discerning collected Japanese prints.
So closely packed was the howling, cursing mob that no weapon could be wielded to advantage, and none of the Arabs dared use a firearm for fear of wounding one of his
compatriots.
"As a matter of fact, I know very few of my
compatriots over here.