Fabrice, d’abord étonné, puis furieux, ne comprenant absolument rien à ce qui lui arrivait, passa trente-trois longues journées dans cette misérable prison ; il écrivait lettres sur lettres au commandant de la place, et c’était la femme du geôlier, belle Flamande de trente-six ans, qui se chargeait de les faire parvenir.
Fabrizio, astonished at first, then furious, understanding absolutely nothing of what was happening to him, spent thirty-three long days in this wretched prison; he wrote letter after letter to the town commandant, and it was the gaoler's wife, a handsome Fleming of six-and-thirty, who undertook to deliver them.