Besides, you may have to pass as a Royalist, and who can answer for the discretion of so many?
Besides, if we have to turn and double, there is no hiding fifty men.

If you ride through the smallest village at midnight, the noise would wake the inhabitants; and when the enemy came up, they would get news of your passage.
"I do not see that you can do better than take Eustace and Roger and myself.

Henri will not be fit to ride for weeks, yet; and although Jacques is recovering from the loss of his bridle arm, you settled that he was to go to Laville, where the countess would take him into her service.

Jarnac lessened your force by half; but I think that two will be as good as four, on a journey like this.
Such a party can pass unnoticed.

It is but a gentleman, with two retainers behind him, from a neighbouring chateau." "That is what I concluded myself, Pierre; but I thought I would ask your opinion about it, for you have shown yourself a shrewd fellow.
"All your horses are in good condition, and it is well that I exchanged those you rode before, for some of the best of the three hundred we captured from the assailants of the chateau.