Long TextExercise 9 of 81

We were speaking of sequestration, alluding to a recent lawsuit. It was at the close of a friendly evening in a very old mansion in the Rue de Grenelle, and each of the guests had a story to tell, which he assured us was true. Then the old Marquis de la Tour-Samuel, eighty-two years of age, rose and came forward to…

• How does the Marquis look back on what happened to him?
• Why hasn't the Marquis ever told the story before now?