The Count’s Chauffeur: Being the Confessions of George Ewart, Chauffeur to Count Bindo Di Ferraris (1908)

I have been many things, in Britain, Canada, Europe, and elsewhere; and of course my father wanted me to be an accountant. But now in Paris, in Rome, in Florence, in Berlin, in Vienna – in fact, over half the face of Europe, from the Pyrenees to the Russian frontier – I am now known as The Count’s Chauffeur. And the count is not just Italian gentry: he is a swindler. And I am his aide-de-camp… .