“And they shall eat me up too!” said Biscotine.
All this while Brisquet was returning by the Puchay high road, passing the Asses’ Cross at Mortemer Abbey, because he had a bundle of faggots to leave at Jean Paquier’s.
“Have you seen the children?” Brisquette asked him.
“The children,” said Brisquet, “the children! Oh mercy, have they gone out?”
“I sent them out as far as the mound and the pond to meet you, but you had taken another road.”
Brisquet gripped his good axe and set off running towards the mound.