We shall have to make use of the country-people; examine all faces." He turned towards the family and said in a threatening tone, "Au revoir!" No one replied, and the two agents left the room.
"What would Fouche say if he knew we had made a domiciliary visit without getting any results ?" remarked Peyrade as he helped Corentin into the osier vehicle.
"It isn't over yet," replied the other, "those four young men are in the forest.

Look there!" and he pointed to Laurence who was watching them from a window.

"I once revenged myself on a woman who was worth a dozen of that one and had stirred my bile a good deal less.

If this girl comes in the way of my hatchet I'll pay her for the lash of that whip." "The other was a strumpet," said Peyrade; "this one has rank." "What difference is that to me?
All's fish that swims in the sea," replied Corentin, signing to the gendarme who drove him to whip up.
Ten minutes later the chateau de Cinq-Cygne was completely evacuated.
"How did they get rid of the corporal ?" said Laurence to Francois Michu, whom she had ordered to sit down and eat some breakfast.
"My father told me it was a matter of life and death and I mustn't let anybody get into our house," replied the boy.

"I knew when I heard the horses in the forest that I'd got to do with them hounds of gindarmes, and I meant to keep 'em from getting in.