I can assure you that the journey has done me an immense deal of good, and he will tell you that I am very different, now, from what I was when he found me at Amiens, for I had begun to think that I should never get away alive." "Do not let us stay talking here," the baron said.

"Anne has had some soup prepared for you, under her own eyes; and that, and a glass or two of good Burgundy, will do wonders for you." Desmond, indeed, was greatly revived, and was able to join in a cheerful conversation with his hosts.
"We are both dying to hear your adventures," the baron said, "and how you managed to escape from that jail in England, as you did, and also how it was that we met with that dreadful disaster at Oudenarde.

It really seems that those terrible fellows, Marlborough and Prince Eugene, are invincible." "They are good generals, Baron.

Beyond troubles with the commanders of the forces of their allies, they are able to carry out their own plans.

The Dukes of Vendome and Berwick are also able commanders, but they were hampered by the presence of the Duke of Burgundy, who, on several occasions, overruled their opinions and ruined their plans.