The handsomer the head, you understand, the more one holds on to it.

So Laurent accepted the freedom offered him and escaped; a horse was waiting for him at the next village.

The young girl, who might have retarded or hindered his flight, was to rejoin him the next day.

Dawn came, but not the guardian angel.

It seems that our hero cared more for his mistress than he did for his companion; he left his comrade, but he would not go without her.