CHAPTER 36On the morrow, before setting out, the wretch presented us witha new scene of cruelty and of barbarity whereof no example isfurnished by the annals of Andronicus, Nero, Tiberius, orWenceslaus. Everyone at the chateau supposed Roland's sister wouldleave with him, and he had indeed told her to dress and readyherself for the journey; at the moment of mounting his horse, heleads her toward us. "There's your post, vile creature," says he,ordering her to take off her clothes, "I want my comrades toremember me by leaving them as a token the woman for whom theythought I had a fancy; but as we need only a certain number and asI am going to follow a dangerous road upon which my weapons willperhaps be useful, I must try my pistols upon one of theserascals." Whereupon he loads one of his gun
