At present I seem altogether unattached.

The marshal's staff is, of course, broken up; but as I served on the king's own staff twice, during the last campaign, I trust that he will put me on it again." "That he will do, of course," the count said.

"After saving his life at Zorndorf, he is sure to do so." Supper was now announced, and after it had been removed and the party drew round the fire, Fergus told them the story of his escape.
"It was excellently managed," the count said, when he had finished.
"I do not know that it was quite as dramatic as your escape from Spielberg, but I should think that, of the two, the escape from Linz must have seemed the most hopeless.

The plan of getting the shutters open and of swimming the moat might have occurred to anyone; but the fact that you were in uniform, and that it would have been impossible to smuggle in a disguise, would have appeared to most men an insuperable obstacle to carrying out the plan.
"You certainly are wonderfully full of resource.

As a rule, I should think that it is much more difficult for two men to make their escape from a place than it is for one alone; but it did not seem to be so, in this case." "It certainly did not add to the difficulty of getting out of the fort, count.