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`` We are all of one mind , '' was the unanimous reply . `` We are assassins and incendiaries , but we have never yet fought a battle like men , '' resumed De Feuquiere . `` No , '' added Montclas . `` We have longed in vain for honorable warfare ; for a fair combat before the light of heaven , face to face with men armed like ourselves ; and we are sick at heart of midnight torches and midnight murders . '' `` No doubt ; you are a sentimental personage , I hear : one who shed tears when the order was given to sack Mannheim . '' `` I am not ashamed of those tears , '' returned Montclas . `` For three months these much enduring people have exerted themselves to do our bidding , treating us like guests who had come to them as foes .