Men went to their death without fear, and they dealt it to others without emotion.
"And now," asked Montbar, "have you anything further to say ?" "Yes," replied Morgan, "I have to add that nothing is easier than to procure horses, or even to escape on foot; we are all hunters and more or less mountaineers.

It will take us six hours on horse back to get out of France, or twelve on foot.

Once in Switzerland we can snap our fingers at citizen Fouche and his police.

That's all I have to say." "It would be very amusing to laugh at citizen Fouche," said Montbar, "but very dull to leave France." "For that reason, I shall not put this extreme measure to a vote until after we have talked with Cadoudal's messenger." "Ah, true," exclaimed two or three voices; "the Breton! where is the Breton ?" "He was asleep when I left," said Montbar.
"And he is still sleeping," said Adler, pointing to a man lying on a heap of straw in a recess of the grotto.
They wakened the Breton, who rose to his knees, rubbing his eyes with one hand and feeling for his carbine with the other.
"You are with friends," said a voice; "don't be afraid." "Afraid!" said the Breton; "who are you, over there, who thinks I am afraid ?" "Some one who probably does not know what fear is, my dear Branche-d'Or," said Morgan, who recognized in Cadoudal's messenger the same man whom they had received at the Chartreuse the night he himself arrived from Avignon.

"I ask pardon on his behalf." Branche-d'Or looked at the young men before him with an air that left no doubt of his repugnance for a certain sort of pleasantry; but as the group had evidently no offensive intention, their gayety having no insolence about it, he said, with a tolerably gracious air: "Which of you gentlemen is captain?
I have a letter for him from my captain." Morgan advanced a step and said: "I am." "Your name ?" "I have two." "Your fighting name ?" "Morgan." "Yes, that's the one the general told me; besides, I recognize you.
You gave me a bag containing sixty thousand francs the night I saw the monks.