‘I hope you suffer no inconvenience from the overturn, ma’am?’ said the merry–faced gentleman, addressing the fastidious lady, as though he were charitably desirous to change the subject.

Murat`s face beamed with stupid satisfaction as he listened to "Monsieur de Bal-macheve." But royaute oblige!* and he felt it incumbent on him, as a king and an ally, to confer on state affairs with Alexander`s envoy. He dismounted, took Balashev`s arm, and moving a few steps away from his suite, which waited respectfully, began to pace up and down with him, trying to speak significantly. He referred to the fact that the Emperor Napoleon had resented the demand that he should withdraw his troops from Prussia, especially when that demand became generally known and the dignity of France was thereby offended.