The Blues may have pushed in between his party and us, and he may have found that he could not rejoin us.

His horse may have been shot and he obliged to fly on foot.

He has gone through all these battles from the first, and has never been wounded.

Why should we suppose that he has not done the same now?
I feel sure that if he had lost his horse he would not have tried to join us, for he would have thought that he would have hampered our escape.
"Jean is full of resources, and has everything in his favour.

He is not like the others, who have but one aim, to get back to La Vendee and die there, and whose way is barred by the Loire.