Those who have shown such courage as you have done, and have been so loyal to the promises made me when I first enrolled you, would, I felt certain, not hang back now.

Now, do you draw aside for a minute or two, while I speak to the others." There was a movement, and the two groups stood apart.
"Your case is different from that of the others," he said.

"In the first place, you have not been with me so long; and secondly--and this is more important--that Madame Martin is not the wife of your seigneur, and that you owe no duty to her.

The enterprise on which we are going to start does not concern the cause for which we are fighting.

It is a private business, and there is no occasion whatever for you to take part in it.