I oughtn't to have let you go alone, but you were gone before I knew, and we had all we could manage here.

There are ten of them dead, and the rest are in our hands--about twenty, I think--and every man of them damaged.

They fought like devils." "Many of ours hurt ?" I asked.
"We've not come out whole, but there's no one killed.

Where's your grandfather ?" "Wounded on Herm, but not seriously, M.Tourtel says." "Seen anything of Torode himself, Hamon ?" asked Tourtel.
"Haven't you got him?
Better look if he's among our lot.

You would know him better than we would.