We are tired of hard work in the vineyards, and are going to take up with our own trade; for my comrade, here, and I served under De Brissac, in Italy.

We would rather enlist under our own lord than under a stranger." "Yes, that I can understand," the landlord said; "but you will find it no easy work travelling, at present; when every bridge and ford across the rivers is watched by armed men, and all who pass are questioned, sharply, as to their business." "Well, if they won't let us pass," Jacques said carelessly, "we must join some leader here; though I should like to have had a few days at home, first." "Your best plan would have been to have gone by boat to Bordeaux.
There has been a strong wind from the west, for the last three days, and it would save you many a mile of weary tramping." "That it would," Jacques said; "but could one get a passage ?" "There will be no difficulty about that.

There is not a day passes, now that the wind is fair, that three or four boats do not go off to Bordeaux, with produce from the farms and vineyards.

Of course, you wouldn't get up without paying; but I suppose you are not without something in your pockets.
"There is a cousin of mine, a farmer, who is starting in the morning, and has chartered a boat to carry his produce.

If I say a word to him, I have no doubt he would give the four of you a passage, for a crown." "What do you say, comrades ?" Jacques said.