Chapter Two
The Cavalier of Low Creatures
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And that, I think, is all that there really is about me, as a person in the tale. Of course, this first person singular will continue, and there’ll no doubt be any amount of ‘I this’ and ‘I that’, but that is because of the nature of the work, and there’s never, the way I see it, much more than a pen behind it. Hilary, however, and Guy de Travest are not of my mind about this. We have recently been talking about these affairs, and a sad enough talk they made, and my two friends, my two seniors, were reluctantly compelled, they said, to disagree with me about my lack of responsibility in the events to be related hereinafter.
To me, the way I see it, it looks as though certain things were decreed to happen and that, therefore, they did happen:
