With that refreshment I could perhaps regain a degree of energy: without it, it would be difficult to proceed.

The wish to have some strength and some vigour returned to me as soon as I was amongst my fellow-beings.

I felt it would be degrading to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet.

Had I nothing about me I could offer in exchange for one of these rolls?
I considered.

I had a small silk handkerchief tied round my throat; I had my gloves.