Chapter IV: Captivity

The Rupture--Detentions--Flights and Narrow Escapes--Life
at Verdun--Extortion--Napoleon’s Rigour--M.P.’s--The
_Argus_--Escapes and Recaptures--Diplomatists
--Liberations--Indulgences--Women and Children--Captures
in War--Rumbold--Foreign Visitors--British
Travellers--Deaths--The Last Stage--French Leave--Unpaid
Debts, 174