This is no longer your home, lads, and I am no longer your master.

Ye would be soldiers when I did not wish it; now let ye be soldiers, and I'm the less sorry for it, as it seems like that you'll prove good soldiers.

And now, Peter and Jean, you're welcome both of you.

Jacques Chapeau you are most heartily welcome--come Annot, let the lads have a swinging breakfast, for I know these soldiers fight not well unless they be fed well," and so finishing his speech, he led the way into the cottage.
The three men were too well pleased with their reception to grumble at the smith's mode of expressing his feeling.

Jean and Peter were delighted to find that they were to be entertained with the best their father could afford, instead of with black looks and hard words, and that the only punishment to be immediately inflicted on them, was that they were to do no work; the party, therefore, entered the cottage tolerably well pleased with each other.
It is not to be supposed that Annot remained in the back-ground during the whole of her father's oration.