But this time they burst out into threats on seeing us, shouting, 'Let us kill them! Let us kill them!' Instead of running away, we approached them, assuring them that we were Royalists.

Our coolness was so convincing that we got through safe and sound.
"On getting back to the captain's I threw myself on the sofa, quite overcome by the thought that only that morning my wife had been beside me under my protection, and that I had let her go back to the town to a cruel and inevitable death.

I felt as if my heart would break, and nothing that our host and my friend could say gave me the slightest comfort.

I was like a madman, unconscious of everything round me.
"M______ went out to try to pick up some news, but in an instant we heard him running back, and he dashed into the room, calling out: "'They are coming! There they are!' "'Who are coming ?' we asked.
"'The assassins!' "My first feeling, I confess, was one of joy.

I pounced upon a pair of double-barrelled pistols, resolved not to let myself be slaughtered like a sheep.