I hope that some time in the future, should peace ever again be restored to France, we may be able to meet you again, and express more warmly the obligations we feel towards you." Madame de Merouville added a few words of gratitude, and then D'Arblay broke in with: "De Merouville, you must settle at once whether to go with us, or stay on the faith of this safeguard.

We have no such protection and, if we linger here, we shall be having half a dozen troops of horse after us.

You may be sure they will be sent off, as soon as the president and his friends reach the city; and if we were caught again, we should be in an even worse plight than before.

Do you talk it over with Madame and, while you are doing so, Francois and I will drink a flask of wine, and eat anything we can find here; for they forgot to give us breakfast before they sent us off, and it is likely we shall not have another opportunity, for some hours." "What do you think, Monsieur Fletcher ?" Monsieur de Merouville said, after speaking for a few minutes with his wife; "will they respect this pledge?
If not we must go, but we are both past the age when we can take up life anew.

My property would, of course, be confiscated, and we should be penniless among strangers." "I think they will respect the pledge," Philip replied.