He was utterly unmanned, or it might have gone hard with me yet; and I considered him hesitating, as, indeed, there was cause.

The man was a double-dyed traitor: he had tried to murder me, and I had first baffled his endeavours and then exposed and insulted him.
Was it wise to place myself any longer at his mercy?
With his help I should doubtless travel more quickly; doubtless also far less agreeably; and there was everything to show that it would be at a greater risk.

In short, I should have washed my hands of him on the spot, but for the temptation of the French officers, whom I knew to be so near, and for whose society I felt so great and natural an impatience.

If I was to see anything of my countrymen, it was clear I had first of all to make my peace with Mr.Fenn; and that was no easy matter.

To make friends with any one implies concessions on both sides; and what could I concede?
What could I say of him, but that he had proved himself a villain and a fool, and the worse man?
'Well,' said I, 'here has been rather a poor piece of business, which I dare say you can have no pleasure in calling to mind; and, to say truth, I would as readily forget it myself.