We may want such a thing, badly." The clothes were tried on, and found to fit fairly well.

In our days the short-waisted coats with their long tails, and the waistcoats extending below the waist, would be deemed laughable; but as it was then the fashion among the middle classes, and especially the Republicans, Jean saw nothing ridiculous in it, while Leigh smiled at the figures they cut.

Both had bright yellow breeches and stockings, and low shoes.
They waited till midnight at Clisson, and then mounted again, and by morning they were within a mile or two of a ferry, a short distance above Nantes.

They stopped at a small village, and there purchased two tricolour cockades from the one shop it boasted, these forming conspicuous objects in the window, as a proof of the warm adherence of its owner to the Convention.
At the little cabaret they took breakfast, and saw that the horses were fed, then they rode on to the ferry.

The boat was on the opposite side, and in half an hour it crossed.