"Where are they?"

"One is being organized in the mountains of Auvergne, under the
orders of M. de Chardon; another in the Jura Mountains, under M.
Teyssonnet; and, finally, a third is operating most successfully
at this time, in the Vendee, under the orders of Escarboville,
Achille Leblond and Cadoudal."

"Truly, citizen, you render me a real service in telling me this.
I thought the Bourbons completely resigned to their exile. I
supposed the police so organized as to suppress both provisional
royalist committees in the large towns and bandits on the highways.
In fact, I believed the Vendee had been completely pacificated
by Hoche."

The young man to whom this reply was addressed burst out laughing.

"Why, where do you come from?" he exclaimed.

"I told you, citizen, from the end of the earth."

"So it seems." Then he continued: "You understand, the Bourbons
are not rich, the emigres whose property was confiscated are
ruined. It is impossible to organize two armies and maintain a
third without money. The royalists faced an embarrassing problem;
the republic alone could pay for its enemies' troops and, it
being improbable that she would do so of her own volition, the
shady negotiation was abandoned, and it was adjudged quicker
to take the money without permission than to ask her for it."