We will lie down for two hours, and see you off before daybreak.

I do not know whether la Rochejaquelein, who must now be considered in command, since d'Elbee and Bonchamp are both desperately wounded, will gather a force to act as a rearguard.
If so we must stay with him; but I do not think that even his influence would suffice to hold any considerable body of peasants together.

All have convinced themselves that there is safety in Brittany.
"At any rate, the enemy will need a day's rest before they pursue.
They must have suffered quite as heavily as we have." The night, however, was not to pass quietly.

At two o'clock two officers, who had remained as piquets, rode into the town with news that Westermann's division, which had marched through Moulet and had taken no part in the action, was approaching.

The horn sounded the alarm, and the fugitives started up and renewed their flight.
Marthe could not be left behind now, nor did the others desire it; and until they had crossed the Loire there could be no separation, for the whole country would swarm, in forty-eight hours, with parties of the enemy, hunting down and slaying those who had taken refuge in the woods.
Jean and Leigh had lain down in the cart, to prevent any of the fugitives seizing it.