But I think that most of our chaps had better be told off for firing the town.

I think that a good many might be willing to undertake that job, for I have heard it said, many and many a time, that they would like to burn the sewer rats out.

There are other men who would, I am sure, rather join in the attack on the jail, if they could do so without putting the lives of all of us in danger.
"As to getting hold of an artilleryman, I don't know that that would be difficult.

The men employed on that sort of work are all old soldiers, and many of these, though they dare not say so, hate what is going on just as much as we do.

I have met one of them with Emile Moufflet, who served with you, captain, for two or three years.