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There he found a coachman who was willing to start immediately for Fontainebleau . The moment the price was agreed on , the old man , who seemed to have renewed his youth , jumped into the carriage and started . According to agreement , he stopped to rest the horse at Essonne , but arrived at Fontainebleau in time for the diligence to Nemours , on which he secured a seat , and dismissed his coachman . He reached home at five in the morning , and went to bed , with his life-long ideas of physiology , nature , and metaphysics in ruins about him , and slept till nine o'clock , so wearied was he with the events of his journey . On rising , the doctor , sure that no one had crossed the threshold of his house since he re-entered it , proceeded -LRB- but not without extreme trepidation -RRB- to verify his facts . He was himself ignorant of any difference in the bank-notes and also of the misplacement of the Pandect volumes . The somnambulist was right .