"It is probable that, in a camp like this, there is someone who understands English.

Very likely they are playing the same game with us that we are with them.

They pretend there is no one who can speak to us; but, very likely, there may be someone standing outside now, trying to listen to what we say." Then, raising his voice he went on: "What abominable luck I have! Who could have reckoned upon the boat being hit, twice, at that distance?
I thought we had fairly succeeded.
The general will be in a nice way, when he finds we don't come back." "Yes," Middleton rejoined, "and to think that we are likely to spend the winter in prison, at Quebec, instead of Old England.

I am half inclined to try and escape!" "Nonsense!" James replied.

"It would be madness to think of such a thing.