They appreciated the merits of the action of which their general had spoken in such warm terms, and the fact that in point of military rank he was now above them concerned them in no way.

It was a merry supper at the best hotel in Susa.
"You see now, de Lisle," Chavigny said, "the advantage of taking a morning dip in snow water.

Neither you nor I would have swum across those moats, and remained all night long in our wet clothes, for a thousand crowns." "No, no, nor for five thousand," the other laughed.

"Pass me the wine; it makes me shiver to think of it.

I fancy we may as well admit at once that if the mission had been entrusted to us, we should have made a mess of it.