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No Surrender!

CHAPTER 14: Le Mans
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You are much more likely to want money, if we are separated, than I.
"You had best sew the greater part up in your saddle, Leigh." "I think we had better divide it as much as possible, Jean.

We can put seventy-five louis in each of our saddles, and the weight would not be so great that anyone who happens to handle one of them would notice it.

I can put another five-and-forty in the belt round my waist, and keep the odd five in my pocket for expenses.

Of course, if we decide to abandon our horses, I will make some other arrangement." "The best plan, Leigh, will be for us to change the louis for assignats at the first opportunity.

Gold is so scarce that each time you offered to pay with it, it would excite suspicion.


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