After telling her to do a good league, walking in the darkness made deeper in appearance by the bivouac fires which lit on all sides the horizon, the adjutant handed Fabrizio a police officer that a grave, asked for his papers. Fabrice who showed his passport described him as a dealer in barometers with his wares.

– Are they stupid, ‘cried the officer, it is also too much!

He questions our hero who spoke of the Emperor and freedom in terms of the greatest enthusiasm, whereupon the police officer was seized with an insane laugh.

– Of course! you’re not too clever! he cried. It is a little strong coffee that we dare send us greenhorns like you!

And whatever could be said Fabrizio, who killed himself to explain that indeed it was not a dealer in barometers, the officer sent to prison for B. .., a small town neighborhood where our hero arrived on the three in the morning, outraged fury and dead tired.