That would set them all against us." "I tell you frankly, Ladislas, that we shall not be willing to aid in any acts of robbery.

Of course, when one is with an army one has to plunder on a large scale, and it has often gone terribly against the grain, when I have had to join parties sent out to forage.

But it has to be done.

I would rather not join men in taking food, yet I understand that it may be necessary.

But as to taking money, I will have nothing to do with it.