Everyone knows that he is a good master, and I never heard a word said against him." "That has very little to do with it," Leigh said.

"His crime was that he was rich, and the scoundrels wanted his money.

They did arrest him, but he was rescued before they got him out of his house, and fortunately everything had been prepared for his flight.
At the present moment they are searching high and low for him, and I expect that no craft there will be permitted to leave till she has been thoroughly ransacked, to make sure that he and madame are not hiding there." "Ah, they are bad times, monsieur.

It may be that things were not quite as they might have been, though for my part I never saw anything to grumble at; nor did any other Vendean, as far as I ever heard; but if things had been ten times as bad as they were, they would have been better than what is going on now.
"Why, monsieur, all Europe must think that we Frenchmen are devils.
They say that more than a hundred thousand people have been put to death, not counting the loss in La Vendee." "Which must be quite as much more, Edouard; and it is no consolation to know that the loss of the Blues must have been fully equal to ours." "How is it to end, monsieur ?" "I think that the first part will end soon.

As far as I could find out as we travelled through the country, and in Paris, even the mob are getting sick of this terrible bloodshed.