When we have been chatting together, he has said things about the committee that would have cost him his head, if he had been overheard.

I know that his chum is in charge of some stores, but whether they are powder or not, I cannot say.

But at any rate, Emile will be able to find out for me the name of several of them who have charge of powder; and he would be likely to know which of them had sentiments like his own, and how far they could be trusted.
"That would not take long, but to get hold of forty hands for the other work would take some time.

One dare go only to men one is very intimate with, and get them to approach men whom they know well; for even among us, there are fellows who take the committee's money to spy over the others, and to find out whether any trouble is likely to come, or Royalists to be shipped off.

One generally knows who they are, because they overdo their parts, and rail at the Convention more roundly and openly than an honest man would dare to do.