Great harm might have come to you wandering through the mountains and deserts of the north.

You could never have reached the Texans alive, and since you could not do so it was better to have come back to us, was it not ?" "I have not come willingly." General Cos frowned, but Santa Anna laughed.
"That was frank," he said, "and we will be equally frank with you.

You would go north to the Texans, telling them that I mean to come with an army and crush them.

Is it not so ?" "It is," replied Ned boldly.
Santa Anna smiled.

He did not seem to be offended at all.