"Now as for me, many's the time I've slept every night for two weeks in my cart when I was taking apples to market.

One gets used to that sort of thing.

The gentlemen propose to set out for Torda this very night, because to-morrow is the great market-day in Kolozsvar, and there'll be troops of peddlers and dealers of all sorts coming into town, and farmers driving their cattle and sheep and swine, so that you couldn't possibly make head against them if you should wait till morning." Blanka readily gave her consent to any plan that seemed best to her conductors.
Aaron meanwhile had brought out three good horses from the stable and harnessed them to a travelling carriage.

"Water behind us, fire before us," he remarked to Manasseh as he buckled the last strap.
Wallachian troops were holding the mountain passes about Torda, and had even threatened Toroczko; but thus far the inhabitants had not allowed themselves to be frightened.

Now, however, there was a report that General Kalliani was approaching from Hermannstadt with a brigade of imperial soldiery.