My quick-witted attendant [Kory-Kory] fully appreciated the compliment I was paying to the costume of his race, and began more sedulously to arrange the folds of the one only garment which remained to me. (Typee)
I. F. ... "Did you ever remark that his valets are often the most intelligent and quickwitted of his characters?" (Scenes Beyond the Western Border, January 1852)The Captain's Imaginary Friend is talking about valets in the novels of G. P. R. James, specifically Jean Marais in The False Heir.
Strange to say, the servant's name is misspelled Marois in both the magazine and book version.
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