Bem regards the Transylvanian campaign as ended, and has set out with his whole army for the Banat, leaving only a few regulars to guard the passes and to prosecute the siege of Karlsburg.

Our part is to check him in his march on Croatia." "Or, in other words," interrupted the man in the gown, "to prevent him from dealing Jellachich a fatal blow, we are to throw ourselves in Bem's way." "The victors of Abrudbanya and Brad will not shrink from the undertaking, I should hope," was Diurbanu's response.
"Let us understand each other," said the other, setting the little boy on his knee and trotting him up and down as he spoke.

"Is it reasonable to suppose that we could, without cavalry, artillery, or experienced commanders, attack a fully equipped force with any hope of success, especially after that force has driven an Austrian army corps out of the country and shown itself able to repulse the Russian auxiliaries ?" "No one expects that of us.

Our operations are to be confined to raids in the mountains." "But no enemy is to be found now in the mountains.

Don't you know that?
You have just come over the mountains.