On examining the purse, I found fifty Napoleons in it: these must have been, obtained from her father.

I cried over them with delight.

O'Brien was also much affected at the kindness of the colonel.
"He's a real O'Brien, every inch of him," said he: "even this cursed country can't spoil the breed." At the cabaret where we stopped, we were informed, that the officer who was at the hotel had been appointed to the command of the strong fort of Bergen-op-Zoom, and was proceeding thither.
"We must not chance to meet him again, if possible," said O'Brien; "it would be treading too close upon the heels of his duty.

Neither will it do to appear on stilts among the dikes; so, Peter, we'll just jump on clear of this town and then we'll trust to our wits." We walked out of the town early in the morning, after O'Brien had made purchases of some of the clothes usually worn by the peasantry.

When within a few miles of St Nicholas, we threw away our stilts and the clothes which we had on, and dressed ourselves in those O'Brien had purchased.