When a bullet killed one of their companions, they only observed, scarcely taking the pipes from their mouths, 'Our hour is not yet come: it is not the will of Mahomet that we should fall.' "I own that this rash security appeared to me, at first, surprising, but it soon ceased to strike me with wonder, and it even tended to confirm my favourite opinion, that some were born to good and some to evil fortune.
I became almost as careless as my companions, from following the same course of reasoning.

'It is not,' thought I, 'in the power of human prudence to avert the stroke of destiny.

I shall perhaps die to-morrow; let me therefore enjoy to-day.' "I now made it my study every day to procure as much amusement as possible.

My poverty, as you will imagine, restricted me from indulgence and excess, but I soon found means to spend what did not actually belong to me.

There were certain Jews who were followers of the camp, and who, calculating on the probability of victory for our troops, advanced money to the soldiers, for which they engaged to pay these usurers exorbitant interest.