They are in too much haste to get their food, at the end of a long day's work, to waste much time with the cooking.
"Here comes La Noue again." "Will you order your troop to be again in the saddle at five o'clock in the morning, De Laville ?" the Count said.

"I start with a party of two hundred at that hour.

There will be my own men and yours.

The rest will be gentlemen and their personal retainers." "I would that it had been three hours later," Francois said, as the Count left them and moved away, giving similar orders to the other gentlemen.

"I own I hate moving before it is light.