After our escape from that well at Vannes we need not despair about breaking out from this dungeon of Holbeaut." "We might overpower the guard who brings our food," Ralph said.
"There is that chance," Walter rejoined, "but I think it is a poor one.
They may be sure that this dishonourable treatment will have rendered us desperate, and they will take every precaution and come well armed.

It may be, too, that they will not come at all, but that they intend us to die of starvation, or perchance to be drowned by the floods, which it is easy to see often make their way in here.

No, our escape, if escape there be, must be made through that loophole above.

Were that bar removed, methinks it is wide enough for us to squeeze through.

Doubtless such a hazard has not occurred to them, seeing that it is nigh twelve feet above the floor, and that a single man could by no possibility reach it, but with two of us there is no difficulty.