Usually they drink and play cards all night long.

I want an opportunity to drug their brandy, and thus to render them more loutish and idiotic than usual; then for a blow on the head that will make them senseless.

It should be easy, for I have a strong fist, and after that ..." "Well?
After that, friend ?" rejoined Sir Percy earnestly, "after that?
Shall I fill in the details of the picture ?--the guard twenty-five strong outside the Conciergerie, how will you pass them ?" "I as the Governor, followed by one of my guards ..." "To go whither ?" "I have the right to come and go as I please." "I' faith! so you have, but 'one of your guards'-- eh?
Wrapped to the eyes in a long mantle to hide the female figure beneath.

I have been in Paris but a few hours, and yet already I have realised that there is not one demmed citizen within its walls, who does not at this moment suspect some other demmed citizen of conniving at the Queen's escape.

Even the sparrows on the house-tops are objects of suspicion.