Comme on tournait la rue qui y conduit, il ouvre avec rapidité la porte de la chaise pratiquée sur le devant, saute par-dessus l’un des bâtons, renverse d’un coup de poignard l’un des estafiers qui lui portait sa torche au visage ; il reçoit un coup de dague dans l’épaule, un second estafier lui brûle la barbe avec sa torche allumée, et enfin Fabrice arrive à Ludovic auquel il crie :
As they turned the corner, he quickly opened the door in the front of the chair, jumped out over one of the carrying poles, felled with a blow from his dagger one of the flunkeys who thrust a torch into his face; he received a stab in the shoulder from a dirk; a second flunkey singed his beard with his lighted torch, and finally Fabrizio reached Lodovico, to whom he shouted: