Lose no time, I advise you, in availing yourselves of it." We exchanged our last embraces in tears, and they went forth, he following them.

I felt inexpressibly lonely and sad.
Just as I was beginning to get uneasy at his absence, and to think, "What if he should never come back ?" he returned.
"They are safely off now," said he, "and little know what peril they have been in here.

Another twelve hours, and they would all have been taken.

Now, then, let us bestir ourselves, young man.

They call you Jacques; but I shall call you Jean, after my younger brother." Helped on by him, I hobbled along, though in pain.