I speak Portuguese well, and know enough of Spanish to pass as a Spaniard, among Frenchmen, but to anyone who does not speak either language it would be next to impossible to get along." "I quite see that," one of the officers said, "and for my part I would rather stay where I am, than run the risk of such an attempt.
I don't know a word of Spanish, and should be recaptured before I had been out an hour.

If I got away from the town I should be no better off, for I could not obtain a disguise.

As to making one's way from here to Almeida, it would be altogether hopeless." The others agreed, and one of them said: "But don't let us be any hindrance to you, O'Connor.

If you are disposed to try, by all means do so and, if we can help you in any way, we will." "I shall certainly try," Terence said; "but I shall wait a little to see how things go.

It may be by this time Wellington has fallen back again and, in that case, no doubt Massena will advance.