With the recovery of his faculties came the consideration of how miserably Suzanne had duped him, and of how she had dealt with him when he had overtaken her.

He burned now to be avenged, and at all costs he would ride after and recapture her.

He announced, therefore, to the corporal that they must push on to Liege.

Garin gasped at his obstinacy, and would have sought to have dissuaded him, but that La Boulaye turned on him with a fierceness that silenced his expostulations.
It was left to Nature to enforce what Garin could not achieve.

When La Boulaye came to attempt to mount he found it impossible.