"I am ready to run the risk of being killed, but I do not want to be poisoned, so I sent up a score or two of flasks from my own cellars.

The vineyards of Cifuentes are reckoned among the first in this part of Spain.

And now," he said, when they had finished and the table had been cleared, "we will take a look at the map and talk over our plans.

The enemy leave Lerida tomorrow.

I have already ordered that the whole country along their line of march shall be wasted, that all stores of corn, wine, and forage which cannot be carried off shall be destroyed, and that every horse and every head of cattle shall be driven away.