Some men were sent down to the little town of Blenfoix to purchase bread and meat, together with torches and other necessaries.

At nightfall Hector posted sentinels, as he considered it quite possible that the peasants would raise the country for some distance round and try to take vengeance for the loss they had suffered.

When Paolo took some supper round to the two ladies, he returned with a message that they hoped Colonel Campbell would join them in their meal.
"See that the sentries are on the alert, Mieville," he said as he got up from the fire round which he and the three officers were sitting; "you must remember that these poor fellows are desperate.

Of course you and I know that they can do themselves no good by attacking castles and burning chateaux, but were we in their place--famished, despairing, and ignorant--we should doubtless do the same.

And although, with men as well disciplined as ours, there would be little chance of the peasants overpowering us, they may trust in their numbers, and would believe that if they could destroy us, the whole country might well rise and join them.