The offer was in truth most welcome.

He knew that Lannes would willingly take him in the _Arrow_, but he felt that he would be in the way there and, as he had said to his friend, the rolling earth rather than the air around it was his true field of action.

His first enrollment in the French army had been hurried and without due forms, but war had made it good.
"I'll not come back for you until afternoon," said de Rougemont, "because we're already making preparations to advance, and I shall have much to do meanwhile.

You can watch over Lannes and see that he's not interrupted in his sleep.

He'll need it." "Yes, I have reason to know that he did not sleep at all last night, and he must be in a state of complete exhaustion.