It would be better to be shot, at once, than to await in prison death by the guillotine." "I should say that it does not matter a bit how we are dressed, till we reach the river.

We know now pretty nearly every lane in the country," Leigh said, "and I should think that we ought to be able to reach the Loire." "That is where the difficulty will begin.

In the first place there will be the trouble of crossing, and then that of making our way through the country.

Certainly we could not do so as Vendean peasants." "I should say, Jean, that the best disguises would be those of fairly well-to-do townspeople; something like those we wore into Nantes, but rather less formal--the sort of thing that ordinary tradesmen, without any strong political feeling either way, would wear.

I don't say that we shall not be suspected, however we are dressed, because no one in his senses would be travelling about just at present; but when once we get beyond Tours, if we go that way, we might pass without much notice.
"Which way do you think that we ought to go, Jean ?" Jean shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't see that there is any choice.