We had better dress up a score of men in peasant clothes; and send them off, in couples, to search among the hills.

Whoever comes across a man must bring him in, whether he likes it or not.

The Spaniards are so desperately afraid of the French that they will give us no information, whatever, unless forced to do so; and we shall have even more difficulty than the British.

There must have been thousands of peasants, and others, who knew that Soult had come down upon Plasencia; and yet Sir Arthur obtained no news.
"There is one comfort: there can be little doubt that Soult is just as much in the dark as to the position of the British army." By nightfall three peasants had been brought in.

All shook their heads stolidly, when questioned in Portuguese; but upon Terence having them placed against a rock, and twelve men brought up and ordered to load their muskets, one of them said, in Spanish: "I know where a path across the mountains leaves the road, but I have never been over the hills, and know nothing of how it runs." "Ah! I thought you could make out my question," Terence said.
"Well, you have saved the lives of yourself and your comrades.