Chapter

1 1|     thousand piastres, equal to twenty thousand francs. This was
2 2|         fate, ransomed them for twenty thousand piastres, and took
3 4|   authority here. I have thrown twenty as good as he into the lake!
4 7|      pledged his head that with twenty thousand men he would, in
5 8|     Wallachia, who for the last twenty years had been simply Russian
6 9|      contained four hundred and twenty cannons of all sizes, for
7 9| remained with three hundred and twenty men, threw down the palisades,
8 9|         audacity, of his youth. Twenty times he led his soldiers