I calculated that I should have no difficulty in obtaining a place as a driver, for of course the service is not popular, and any of the men would have been glad enough for me to take his place.

I might thus have got forward as far as Prague.

After that I must have taken my chance, and I think I could, in the same sort of way, have got as far as Leitmeritz; but there I might have been detained for a very long time, until there was an opportunity of crossing the defiles.

It would have been difficult, indeed, for me to have earned my living there; and what was left of the money I had, after paying for the landlord's suit, would scarce have lasted, with the closest pinching, till spring." "You would have managed it somehow, I am sure," Thirza said confidently.

"After getting out of that strong fortress, it would be nothing to get out of Bohemia into Saxony." "We have not congratulated you yet," the countess said, "upon your last promotion.