Get the sail up and drop down the river.

Keep close to the opposite bank.
It is important that we should not be noticed, as we pass the town." "Well, sir, there is hardly air enough to fill the sails.

I should say that we had best tow her across to the other side, in the small boat; and then drift till we are fairly beyond the town.

We are safe not to be seen then." "Perhaps that will be the best plan, Rouget." The men went out and, in two or three minutes, the sound of the oars could be heard.
"I can't say that the lookout is very hopeful, Leigh." "I did not think that anyone would think it so, Jean; but it seems to me that it is just because everyone seems so confident that the prison is safe from attack, that we shall have a chance.

The thing that is troubling me most is where we can get a barrel of gunpowder.