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Everybody ate heartily except the king, who appeared to have no appetite, and myself, who had no right to have any appetite, even if I had not dined well with Prince Sulkouski, for I saw the whole table hushed to listen to my replies to the king's questions. After supper the king began to comment very graciously on my answers. His majesty spoke simply but with great elegance.
Some strongly approved of this advice, others said that the question must be referred to the council at the mosque, and things remained as they were before. The French had made a move early. Soon after daybreak Captain Sulkouski, one of Napoleon's aides-de-camp, started with two hundred cavalry to make a circuit of the town, and to reconnoitre the position of the insurgents.
She was greatly applauded, above all by Prince Repnin, the Russian ambassador, who seemed a person of the greatest consequence. Prince Sulkouski kept me at table for four mortal hours, talking on every subject except those with which I happened to be acquainted.
Everybody ate heartily except the king, who appeared to have no appetite, and myself, who had no right to have any appetite, even if I had not dined well with Prince Sulkouski, for I saw the whole table hushed to listen to my replies to the king's questions. After supper the king began to comment very graciously on my answers. His majesty spoke simply but with great elegance.
She was greatly applauded, above all by Prince Repnin, the Russian ambassador, who seemed a person of the greatest consequence. Prince Sulkouski kept me at table for four mortal hours, talking on every subject except those with which I happened to be acquainted.
I drove off to Prince Sulkouski, who had just been appointed ambassador to the Court of Louis XV. The prince was the elder of four brothers and a man of great understanding, but a theorist in the style of the Abbe St. Pierre. He read the letter, and said he wanted to have a long talk with me; but that being obliged to go out he would be obliged if I would come and dine with him at four o'clock.
I drove off to Prince Sulkouski, who had just been appointed ambassador to the Court of Louis XV. The prince was the elder of four brothers and a man of great understanding, but a theorist in the style of the Abbe St. Pierre. He read the letter, and said he wanted to have a long talk with me; but that being obliged to go out he would be obliged if I would come and dine with him at four o'clock.
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