"I think that everyone strong enough to carry arms, in La Vendee, ought to join and do his best.
I can shoot better than most of the peasantry, not one in twenty of whom has ever had a gun in his hands; and I am sure that I am as strong as most of them.

Besides, if I had been at home I should, now the war has begun, have tried to get a commission and to fight the French--I mean the people who govern France at present--and in fighting them, here, I am only doing what thousands of Englishmen will be doing elsewhere." "Very well, Leigh, then you shall go with Jean.

I shall certainly be glad to know you are together, so that if one is wounded or ill, the other can look after him and bring him here.

I shall do the best I can, while you are away." "I think that we shall soon be back again, and that we shall be constantly seeing you," Jean said.

"You may be sure that the peasants will not keep the field.