“What the devil are we to do, Mark?” I inquired, after we had groaned in unison until both were weary of complaining.
“Do!” exclaimed the fosterer, “Give the thieves leg-bail, and ‘cut our lucky’ the first opportunity.”
There was wisdom in Mark Antony’s advice, and I determined to follow it.
CHAPTER XLI. BATTLES OP THE PYRENEES.
“If I begin the battery once again,
I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur,
Till in her ashes she lie buried.”
King Henry V.