You are also to answer for your daughter and her maid; that they, too, neither by word nor gesture, shall attempt to attract the attention of anyone in the villages that we may pass through." "It was a hard condition, but I had no choice.

The idea that I should suffer the indignity of being bound and gagged, like a common malefactor, made my blood boil.

I should, in that case, no more be able to give the alarm than if I had been free; therefore I gave the promise, for at least it would be a comfort, to Anne, that I should be with her and able to talk to her.
"We stopped two nights on the road, being lodged at solitary houses on the way.

A guard was placed at my chamber door, and another at my window, and even had I not given my word I could not have escaped.
"And now, Monsieur Kennedy, what do you propose ?" "I think, sir, that it would be best that you should start at once, in the carriage, for Pointdexter.

Monsieur Philip's intendant and his men will ride as your escort, but I do not think that there is the slightest probability of your being interfered with; for now that the vicomte is dead, these men--who were not, I think, his retainers, but a band of robbers whom he had hired for the occasion--will have no further motive for attacking you.
"I myself shall return to Aubusson, send back the horse on which I rode there, hire another, and make straight for Moulins, where I still hope that I may find Monsieur de la Vallee alive.
"Did you see the vicomte, after you were attacked ?" "No.