You can make your home in England, and live there until better times come.
"'It is no longer a question of defending our country.

It is lost.
Charette is there now, and still fighting; but as soon as we are disposed of, all these troops that have been hunting us down will be free to act against him, and he too must be crushed.

The peasants have nowhere else to go; and it is not with a desire to defend their homes--which no longer exist--but to die in their native land that they seek to return.

You have from the first done your utmost for La Vendee, but there can be no occasion that you should throw away your life, and those of your wife and brother, now that the cause is utterly lost, and all hope is at an end.
"'Think this over.

I do not say that it is possible for you to escape; but the longer you stay with us, the more difficult will it become.' "So you see, I am sure that when I tell him that, feeling that we can no longer be of use, I am determined to make at least an endeavour to reach England with you, he will approve." "I think he is right, Jean.