Still, they might come up to us wherever we halted for the night." They looked back, when they were some two miles from the village, and along the long straight road could make out some figures that they doubted not were horsemen, just starting in pursuit.
"They waited to mend their leathers," Pierre remarked.
"They were right, there," Philip said; "for a man can fight but poorly, without bridle or stirrups.

The horses will not have been fed, so we have an advantage there.

I do not think we need trouble ourselves much more about them." "There is one thing, sir.

They won't mind foundering their horses, and we have to be careful of ours." "That is so, Pierre; and besides, at the first place they come to, they may send others on in pursuit with fresh horses.

No, we must throw them off our track as soon as we can.