But I see that you have had occasion to open my bag." "We hoped that we might find wine or brandy there when you fainted." "Ah! I have nothing there but just a little--how do you say it ?--my savings.

They are not much, but I must live quietly upon them until I find something to do.

Now one could live quietly here, I should say.
I could not have come upon a more peaceful place, without perhaps so much as a _gendarme_ nearer than that town." "You haven't told us yet who you are, where you come from, nor what you have been," said Jim bluntly.
The stranger looked him up and down with a critical eye: "My word, but you would make a grenadier for a flank company," said he.
"As to what you ask, I might take offence at it from other lips; but you have a right to know, since you have received me with so great courtesy.
My name is Bonaventure de Lapp.

I am a soldier and a wanderer by trade, and I have come from Dunkirk, as you may see printed upon the boat." "I thought that you had been shipwrecked!" said I.
But he looked at me with the straight gaze of an honest man.
"That is right," said he, "but the ship went from Dunkirk, and this is one of her boats.

The crew got away in the long boat, and she went down so quickly that I had no time to put anything into her.