"You are the first gentlemen who have joined us here; though I hear that, farther south, some have already declared themselves.

We want you badly.
"One of you I have seen already," and he smiled at Leigh.

"I told you that you would hear of me, young sir; and you see I have kept my word.
"These with me are Stofflet who, as you may have heard, recaptured the cannon the Blues took at Clisson; and Foret, who had the honour of striking the first blow, at Saint Florent." "Your names are all widely known in this part," Monsieur Sapinaud said, courteously.

"Well, sirs, we have come to fight under your orders.

I have brought a hundred men with me, and we have already done something on our own account; for we last night captured Herbiers, which was defended by two companies, with four cannon.