She sometimes almost wished they had not thought of it, and that they had been content to remain in the city, drilling with the town militia, and thinking of the coming spring campaign.
"We must take our chance," answered Fritz, as he bent over her with a smile on one of those occasions.

"You would not have us value our lives above the safety of our distressed brethren or the honour of our nation?
The things which have happened here of late have tarnished England's fair name and fame.

You would not have us hold back, if we can help to bring back the lustre of that name?
I know you better than that." "I would have you do heroic deeds," answered Susanna, with quickly-kindled enthusiasm, "only I would not have you lose your lives in doing it." "We must take our chance of that," answered Fritz, with a smile, "as other soldiers take theirs.

But we shall be a strong and wary company; and I have passed already unscathed through many perils.
You will not forget us when we are gone, Susanna?
I shall think of you sitting beside this comfortable hearth, when we are lying out beneath the frosty stars, with the world lying white beneath us, wrapped in its winding sheet!" "Ah, you will suffer such hardships! they all say that." There was a look of distress in the girl's eyes; but Fritz laughed aloud.
"Hardship! what is hardship?
I know not the name.

We can track game in the forest, and fish the rivers for it.