"It was like you!" he ejaculated with emotion.

"It was like her cousins! Brave, brave lads! The Vicomte will live to be proud of you! Some day you will all do great things! I say it!" "But oh, Louis!" I exclaimed sorrowfully, though my heart was bounding with pride at his words, "if we had only been in time! If we had only come to you two hours earlier!" "You would have spoken to little purpose then, I fear," he replied, shaking his head.

"We were given over as a prey to the enemy.
Warnings?
We had warnings in plenty.

De Rosny warned us, and we scoffed at him.

The king's eye warned us, and we trusted him.