Passengers in it on another, and in this manner we
descended to Lans-le-Bourg. Nothing remarkable occurred on this journey and
we arrived at Chambery in good case. I hired a caleche to go to Geneva,
remained there three days and arrived at Lausanne on the 18th December.
[100] Horace, Sat., II, 6, 65. - ED.
[101] Dante, Inferno, I, 33,29. - ED.
[102] Henry Augustus, thirteenth Viscount Dillon (1777-1832), married
(1807) to Henrietta Browne (died 1862). - ED.
[103] Quoted from memory, with mistakes. The text has been corrected as it
stands in Brantome, Les Dames galantes, ed. Chasles, vol. I, p.
351. - ED.
AFTER
WATERLOO
PART III.
CHAPTER XIII
MARCH-SEPTEMBER, 1817
Journey from Lausanne to Clermont-Ferrand - A wretched conveyance - The
first dish of frogs - Society in Clermont-Ferrand - General de
Vergeunes - Cleansing the town - Return to Lausanne - A zealous
priest - Journey to Bern and back to Lausanne - Avenches - Lake Morat - Lake
Neufchatel - The Diet in Bern - Character of the Bernois - A beautiful
Milanese lady.
I started from Lausanne on the 4th March 1817, and arrived on the same day
at 4 o'clock at Geneva. On my arrival at Geneva, my banker informed me that
I had been denounced to the police, for some political opinions I had
spoken at the Hotel de l'Ecu de Geneve, previous to my journey into
Italy, and that I had been traced as far as Turin. I went directly on
hearing this to the police, and desired to know who my accusers were, and
that the accusation against me might be investigated immediately. Both
these propositions were however declined, and I was told it was an affaire
passee, and of no sort of consequence; so that from that day to this I
have never been able to ascertain who my friends were.
I left Lausanne with the intention of paying a visit to my friend Col.
Wardle and his family at Clermont-Ferrand, in the Department of the Puy de
Dome, in Auvergne, where they are residing. I staid three days at Geneva,
and then set off at 7 in the evening on the 8th March with the Courier for
Lyons.
I never regretted any thing so much, and was near paying severely for my
rashness in putting myself into such a wretched conveyance, at such a
season of the year; but I had made the agreement with the Courier without
inspecting his carriage, and was obliged to adhere to the bargain. It was a
vehicle entirely open before; it was a bitter cold, rainy, snowy night; and
I had the rain and snow in my face the whole way, and on crossing the
Cerdon I was seized with a violent ague fit, and suffered so much from it
that on arrival at a village beyond Nantua where we stopped for supper, I
determined to proceed no further, but to rest there that night; and I asked
the innkeeper if he could furnish me with a bed for the night.
