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Newton, who had no wish to be acquainted with a French cachot, sooner than it was absolutely necessary, gave the promise required by Monsieur de Fontanges, assuring him that ingratitude was not a part of his character. Monsieur de Fontanges then requested that Newton would accept of a portion of his wardrobe, which he would direct to be sent to the room that would be prepared for him.
"I had a strange dream," said Jeannette; "I thought you were all taken by a revenue-cutter, and put in a cachot. I went to see you, and I did not know one of you again you were all changed." "Very likely, Jeannette; you would not be the first who did not know their friends again when in misfortune. There was nothing strange in your dream." "Mais, mon Dieu! Je ne suis pas comme ca, moi."
"Qu'est-ce qu'il y a, mon ami?" said Madame de Fontanges, rising hastily, and running up to her husband. M. de Fontanges answered by putting the governor's letter into his wife's hands. "Ah! les barbares!" cried Madame de Fontanges; "est-il possible? Pauvre Monsieur Nutong! On l'amène au cachôt." "Au cachôt!" cried all the coloured girls at a breath and bursting into tears "Oh, ciel!"
This my pride revolted at; for pride had again returned, and resumed its empire, even in my cachot. As the day dawned, the noise of the carts and country people coming into the square with their produce, roused me from my reverie, for I had not slept.
'I had a strange dream, said Jeannette; 'I thought you were all taken by a revenue cutter, and put in a cachot. I went to see you, and I did not know one of you again you were all changed. 'Very likely, Jeannette; you would not be the first who did not know their friends again when in misfortune. There was nothing strange in your dream. 'Mais, mon Dieu! je ne suis pas comme ça, moi.
Upon being sentenced to cabinot, whether for writing an intercepted letter, fighting, threatening a planton, or committing some minor offense for the nth time, a man took one blanket from his bed, carried it downstairs to the cachot, and disappeared therein for a night or many days and nights as the case might be.
The dispute grew hot; my escort was foolish enough to clap his hand on the hilt of his sabre an affront intolerable to a citizen, at the head of fifty or sixty braves from the counter or the shambles; the result was, a succession of blows from the whole troop, which closed in my seeing him stripped of every thing, and flung into the cachot of the corps de garde, from which his only view of his beloved Paris must have been through an iron grille.
This my pride revolted at; for pride had again returned, and resumed its empire, even in my cachot. As the day dawned, the noise of the carts and country people coming into the square with their produce, roused me from my reverie, for I had not slept.
This was a cachot, with an iron-grated window on each of its four sides, but without glass. There was no bench, or table, or anything but the bare walls and the pavement. The wind blew sharply through. I had not even a great-coat; but I felt no cold or personal inconvenience, for my mind was too much occupied by superior misery. The door closed on me, and I heard the bolts turn.
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