If, as may possibly happen, I am suddenly arrested in the streets, I shall have my servant near me.

He will have his orders, which will be to hurry back home to tell his mistress to put on the disguise of a peasant woman, that has already been prepared for her, and to go with her at once to the carriage; and another man, whom I can also thoroughly trust, is to come here and say to you, 'It is a bad day.' "Then you and your sister and the child will at once start to join my wife.

She has most reluctantly consented to carry out this plan for, as I tell her, it will add to my sufferings a hundredfold, were she also to be arrested." By dint of great exertions the Henriette was unloaded by the following evening and, half an hour after her last bale was ashore, she dropped down the river with the tide.

She was to anchor off a small village, two miles beyond Fort Medoc; and if inquiry was made as to why she stopped there, Lefaux was to say that he was to take in some wine that Monsieur Flambard had bought from a large grower in that district, and that the lugger was then going to Charente to fill up with brandy for Havre.
Leigh had, the day before, gone with the merchant into the extensive cellars which adjoined the house.
"There is not a man here," Monsieur Flambard said, "who would not do all in his power for me.

Some of them have been with the firm nearly all their lives.