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[JENNY DOLL]

Hi, I'm new to this site and feel good to be here.
I need some help here to explain the dialogue from a book I read to me in a simple way .
Here it is:
"The carving of the pistol looks to be prerevolutionary French."Dave said, wondering where Pan had come by this stuff.
"Could've belonged to Nappy hisself for all I care." Said Dave's friend crustily.
*Nappy is not used as a person's name in this article.
Please help me here. Thanks.

[obelix]

"The carving of the pistol looks to be prerevolutionary French."Dave said, wondering where Pan had come by this stuff.
"Could've belonged to Nappy hisself for all I care." Said Dave's friend crustily.
*Nappy is not used as a person's name in this article.

"The carving of the pistol looks as if it was done in France before the French revolution." (which began in 1789) Dave said, wondering where Pan had found it.

"It could have belonged to Napoleon himself for all I care." Said Dave's friend irritably.

* Nappy is not used as a person's name in this article.

Nappy is a nickname for Napoleon Bonaparte, who was certainly a person, so this sentence doesn't make sense to me.

[JENNY DOLL]

I very much appreciate your great help here, the dialogue all makes sense to me now.

Of course Nappy is a person's name, I should have noticed when the word French appeared in the article.

Many thanks!