Deux femmes le suivirent jusqu’à la porte de Saragosse par laquelle il sortait de la ville ; Pépé les arrêta en les menaçant sérieusement de sa canne, et leur jetant quelque monnaie. Fabrice monta la charmante colline de San Michele in Bosco, fit le tour d’une partie de la ville en dehors des murs, prit un sentier, arriva à cinq cents pas sur la route de Florence, puis rentra dans Bologne et remit gravement au commis de la police un passeport où son signalement était noté d’une façon fort exacte.
Two women followed him as far as the Porta Saragozza, by which he left the town: Peppe stopped them by threatening them seriously with his cane and flinging them some small change; Fabrizio climbed the charming hill of San Michele in Bosco, made a partial circuit of the town outside the walls, took a path which brought him in five hundred yards to the Florence road, then re-entered Bologna and gravely handed to the police official a passport in which his description was given in the fullest detail.