You are free either to choose an officer among yourselves; or to rejoin the army, find Monsieur de la Rochejaquelein, and tell him that I sent you to him in order that he might find a suitable leader for you, among the gentlemen with him.

I would rather that you talked the matter over among yourselves, and came and gave me an answer, in half an hour." "Will you tell us what we shall have to do, captain ?" one of them said.
"That I can hardly do, for I do not know myself.

However, I think it probable that the greater portion of the band would remain outside the town.

There are copses, down by the riverside, where you could wait in safety until you were wanted.

Possibly you might not be wanted at all.