Even in a town like Nantes, forty strange boys wandering about might be noticed." Martin, after seeing that the workers all had refreshment, went to the cure's; as he never interfered in any way with the boys, thinking that it might lessen Leigh's authority, were he to do so.
"Now, I want to talk to you all," Leigh said, after they had drunk their wine and eaten their bread.

"In the first place, do I understand that all who were first with me are ready to run a considerable risk to attempt, with us, to carry off Madame Martin from the hands of the Blues, and to save her from the fate that falls upon every one that they once lay a hand upon ?" "They are all willing, captain," Andre said.

"We spoke to them again, just before we came in last night, and they all said that they were willing and anxious." "Good.

Remember, lads, that it is not too late to draw back now." "We should not dare show our face in the village again," Pierre said, "if we were to hang back when there was a chance of our being of service to so good a lady." "I thank you with all my heart," Leigh said.

"I tell you fairly that I expected such an answer.