I have done the like many a time before now.

In this part of the country one must needs go into the forest if one is ever to leave the shelter of the house at all.
Have no fear for me; I will take care not to run into danger." Joan looked as if hardly satisfied, though she was unable to uphold her case by argument; for it was very true that if their guest was to be anything but a close prisoner, he must adventure himself from time to time in the forest.

Jack, however, broke into one of his hearty laughs, as he looked at Paul, and said: "Those same robbers are not such bad fellows, after all, as some of our good folks would make out.

True, they help themselves to our goods from time to time; but they are capital company if you chance to fall upon their haunts, and they make you welcome.

I've spent more than one night amongst them, and never a bit the worse.