The pocket-book was entirely new, solid, and carefully fastened.

It contained twelve hundred francs in bank notes--all the young girl's savings.

Fougas had no time to deliberate on this delicate circumstance.

He was pushed into a car, the locomotive puffed, and the train started.
The Colonel began to review in his memory the various events which had succeeded each other in his life during less than a week.

His arrest among the frosts of the Vistula, his sentence to death, his imprisonment in the fortress of Liebenfeld, his reawakening at Fontainebleau, the invasion of 1814, the return from the island of Elba, the hundred days, the death of the emperor and the king of Rome, the restoration of the Bonapartes in 1852, his meeting with a young girl who was the counterpart of Clementine Pichon in all respects, the flag of the 23d, the duel with the colonel of cuirassiers--all this, for Fougas, had not taken up more than four days.