They caught sight of him and fired a pistol or two, but he knew the bog too well, and they could not follow him.' 'And what will be done to your prisoner ?' I asked.
Lieutenant Gerard shrugged his shoulders.
'I am very sorry for Mademoiselle your cousin,' said he, 'but a fine girl should not love such a man when there are so many gallant soldiers upon the country side.

I hear that the Emperor is weary of these endless plottings, and that an example will be made of him.' Whilst the young hussar and I had been talking we had been cantering down the broad white road, until we were now quite close to the camp, which we could see lying in its arrangement of regiments and brigades beneath us.

Our approach lay over the high ground, so that we could see down into this canvas city, with its interminable lines of picketed horses, its parks of artillery, and its swarms of soldiers.

In the centre was a clear space, with one very large tent and a cluster of low wooden houses in the middle of it, with the tricolour banner waving above them.
'That is the Emperor's quarters, and the smaller tent there is the headquarters of General Ney, who commands this corps.

You understand that this is only one of several armies dotted along from Dunkirk in the north to this, which is the most southerly.