We shall have an absolute barrack at Durbelliere.

We shall have above one hundred men in the house.

Agatha and the women are at work night and day." "You have the worst part of the whole affair--the ammunition." "It is all packed and ready for the carts; a few days since the cellars were half-full of the lead and iron, which we have been casting; they are now, I trust, half-way to Saumur, under Foret's care." "How many men has he with him ?" asked the priest.
"He has all the men from Clisson, from St.Paul's and St.Briulph's-- except a few of Charles' own tenants, who went on forward to join him at Doue, and who have our supply of flags with them, made in the chateau at Clisson.

Madame de Lescure and poor Marie have worked their fingers to the bone." "God bless them! God will bless them, for they are working in the spirit which he loves." "Agatha and Annette, between them, have packed nearly every ounce of gunpowder," said Henri, who could not help boasting of his sister.
"Night and day they have been handling it without regarding for a moment the destruction which the slightest accident might bring upon them." "It is that spirit, my son, which will enable us to beat twice our own strength in numbers, and ten times our own strength in arms and discipline How many men has Foret with him ?" "Above six hundred.

I do not know his exact numbers," said Henri.
"And you, yourself ?" "I shall muster a thousand strong, that is for a certainty; I believe I shall be nearer twelve thousand." "Let me see--that will be, say two thousand five hundred from the Bocage." "Oh! more than that your reverence," said Chapeau, "you are not counting M.de Lescure's men, who have gone on with the flags--or the men from Beauprieu who will follow M.d'Elbee, or the men from St.Florent, who will come down with Cathelineau." "I don't count Beauprieu, or Cholet or St.Florent; there will be two thousand five hundred from our own country, out of three thousand three hundred male adults, that is three men, Henry, out of every four--they cannot at any rate say that the spirit of the people is not with us." As the priest spoke, they rode into the street of the little village of Echanbroignes, and having stopped at the door of the Mayor's house, Henri and the Cure dismounted, and giving their horses up to Jacques, warmly greeted that worthy civic authority, who came out to meet them.
The appointment of a mayor in every village in France, had been enjoined at an early time in the revolution, and after the death of the King, these functionaries were, generally speaking, strong republicans; but the Vendeans in opposition to the spirit of the revolution, had persisted in electing the Seigneurs, wherever they could get a Seigneur to act as mayor; and, where this was not the case, some person in the immediate employment of the landlord was chosen.