I have no doubt that I can buy assignats here.

We have taken a quantity from the enemy, and la Rochejaquelein will, I am sure, be glad to obtain some gold for them.

It will be a double advantage: we shall have less weight to carry, and shall be able to pay our way without the gold exciting suspicion.

The assignats now are only a quarter of their face value, so that for two hundred louis I should get eight hundred louis in assignats, of which I would take two hundred, and you could take the rest." "That would certainly be an excellent plan, Jean, for two hundred louis in gold would be a serious weight to carry and, if found on us, would in itself be sufficient to condemn us as intending emigres." Jean at once took two hundred louis, which had hitherto been carried in their wallets, and went out.

He returned in an hour.
"That is satisfactorily settled," he said.