I think it can be managed, mademoiselle, especially, as you say, you can afford to pay, for if one won't take you, another will.

Trade is so bad that there are scores of men would start in their fishing-boats for a voyage across the Channel in the hope of getting food for their wives and families." "I was sure it was so, Marthe, but it was so difficult to set about it.

Everyone is afraid of spies, and it needs some one to warrant that we are not trying to draw them into a snare, before anyone will listen.

If your husband will but take the matter up, I have no doubt it can be managed." "Set your mind at ease; the thing is as good as done.

I tell you there are scores of men ready to undertake the job when they know it is a straightforward one." "That is good news indeed, Jeanne," Harry said, when the girl told him of the conversation.