"
Isabelle, left alone, awaited the break of day with trembling
impatience, unable to sleep after the fright and agitation she had
experienced, and momentarily dreading some fresh cause of alarm; but
nothing else happened to disturb her. When she joined her companions
at breakfast, they were all struck with her extreme pallor, and the
distressed expression of her countenance. To their anxious questions
she replied by giving an account of her nocturnal adventure, and de
Sigognac, furious at this fresh outrage, could scarcely be restrained
from going at once to demand, satisfaction for it from the Duke of
Vallombreuse, to whom he did not hesitate to attribute this villainous
scheme.
"I think," said Blazius, when he could make himself heard, "that we
had better pack up, and be off as soon as we can for Paris; the air is
becoming decidedly unwholesome for us in this place."
After a short discussion all the others agreed with him, and it was
decided that they should take their departure from Poitiers the very
next day.
CHAPTER XI. THE PONT-NEUF
It would be too long and tedious to follow our comedians, step by step,
on their way up to Paris, the great capital. No adventures worthy of
being recorded here befell them; as they were in good circumstances
financially, they could travel rapidly and comfortably, and were not
again subjected to such hardships and annoyances as they had endured
in the earlier stages of their long journey.
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