Ha, ha! they want war, do they?
Well, they shall have it; I'll take my pleasure in thwarting them,--every one of them, those bourgeois of Soulanges, and their peasantry! We are in the enemy's country, therefore prudence! Tell the foresters to keep within the limits of the law.

Poor Vatel, take care of him.

The countess is inclined to be timid; she must know nothing of all this; otherwise I could never get her to come back here." Neither the general nor Michaud understood their real peril.

Michaud had been too short a time in this Burgundian valley to realize the enemy's power, though he saw its action.

The general, for his part, believed in the supremacy of the law.
The law, such as the legislature of these days manufactures it, has not the virtue we attribute to it.