Hesdin

I have found out.

What? It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Paul, eight and a half from Saint-Paul to Arras.

He is going to Arras.

Meanwhile, M. Madeleine had returned home.

But they traveled at a very rapid rate.

The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at Montreuil-sur-Mer a little before five o'clock in the morning.

That night the wagon which was descending to Montreuil-sur-Mer by the Hesdin road collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man, enveloped in a mantle.

The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent shock.

I have found out.

What? It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Paul, eight and a half from Saint-Paul to Arras.

He is going to Arras.

Meanwhile, M. Madeleine had returned home.

But they traveled at a very rapid rate.

The post wagon which set out from Arras at one o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at Montreuil-sur-Mer a little before five o'clock in the morning.

That night the wagon, which was descending to Montreuil-sur-Mer by the Hesdin road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man, enveloped in a mantle.

The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent shock.