"Why," replied he, "you must know there are three ways, by one of which prisoners are generally released, as you say, _altogether_; and one way is as common as another, so far as my experience goes. Sometimes they die under the torture; at other times they are turned out to have their head struck off; or else they die of the damp: which last we call being _Home sick_." And with this very consolatory speech he bundled up the irons under his arm, and quitted the cell, taking care to fasten the door behind him. CHAPTER X. Showing what it is to be a day after the Fair; with sundry other matters, which the reader cannot fully comprehend without reading them. Having now left the Woodman as unhappy as we could wish, and De Blenau very little better off than he was before; we must proceed with Pauline, and see what we can do for her in the same way. It has been already said that, in the hurry of her flight, she struck her foot against a stone, and fell. This is an unpleasant accident at all times, and more especially when one is running away; but Pauline suffered it not to interrupt her flight one moment longer than necessary. Finding that some unexpected obstacle had delayed her pursuer as well as herself, she was upon her feet in a moment; and leaving him to arrange his difference with Monsieur Chatpilleur in the best way he could, she flew on towards the Rue Saint Antoine, without stopping to thank her deliverer; and, indeed, without knowing that the good _aubergiste_, taking a sincere interest in her fate, had, at the hour appointed, waited at the door of his auberge till he saw her enter the Bastille, and then, from some undefined feeling that all would not go right, had watched anxiously to see her safe out again. The interest not being reciprocal, Pauline had forgot all about the _aubergiste_; and only seeing that some one obstructed her pursuer, she fled, as I have said before, to the Rue Saint Antoine. She passed Jacques Chatpilleur's little auberge, without any exchange of sentiment, even with the _Sanglier Gourmand_, and darted by the boutique of a _passementier_ with the same celerity. The next shop was a _marchand de broderie et de dentelle_, with a little passage, or _cul de sac_, between it and the following house, which was occupied by a _brocanteur_, both which trades requiring daylight in aid of their operations, were at that hour firmly closed with bolt and bar, nor shed one solitary ray to light the passenger along the streets.