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Updated: June 11, 2025
They were shouting: "Vive Bonaparte!" Bernadotte paled slightly. Bonaparte noticed this pallor. "Ah, ha," he muttered. "Jealous! I was mistaken; he is not a Spartan, he is an Athenian!" As Bonaparte had said, his friends were growing impatient. During the hour that had elapsed since the decree had been posted, the salon, the anterooms, and the courtyard had been crowded.
To be welcomed here, after the usual fretful dangling and wire-pulling in War Office anterooms and city hotels with hills and ruined castles to walk to, a brook rippling under one's bedroom window, and all the time in the world seemed idyllic enough.
At first Carey yawned in the anterooms of balls, waiting for his beautiful wife, but after a while he tired of this; and, letting her go into the world alone, he betook himself to the Turf and Jockey Club, where the play ran very high, for there adventurers and gamesters of all nations congregated the rich Russian met his great rival wheat-grower of America, and the price of great farms changed hands at poker or at baccarat.
The street was empty those who formerly stood there were now joyously thronging in front of the King of Prussia's quarters; they had recovered their voices, and often cheered in honor of Frederick William III. The anterooms of Napoleon indeed presented an animated spectacle.
Meanwhile, the young emperor was in his palace. The anterooms were filled with petitioners of every sort, who, through bribes offered to the members of the imperial household, had penetrated thus far, and were now awaiting the appearance of the emperor.
On two sides there were doors, opening into long suites of anterooms and saloons; on the third side, a stone staircase of spacious breadth, ascending, by dignified degrees and with wide resting-places, to another floor of similar extent.
How was it that in the weeks since her marriage, Dorothea had not distinctly observed but felt with a stifling depression, that the large vistas and wide fresh air which she had dreamed of finding in her husband's mind were replaced by anterooms and winding passages which seemed to lead nowhither?
The gentlemen soon came and gave their arms to their ladies and led them to join the throng that were slowly making its way through the crowded halls and anterooms towards the audience chamber, where the President received his visitors. It was a severe ordeal, the passage of those halls.
When they reached the Palace, Bigot, without speaking to any one, passed through the anterooms to his own apartment, and threw himself, dressed and booted as he was, upon a couch, where he lay like a man stricken down by a mace from some unseen hand. Cadet had coarser ways of relieving himself from the late unusual strain upon his rough feelings.
As this man marched through the anteroom, he had glanced haughtily about him, and the look of contempt which fell on the philosopher probably reflected on the small number of persons present, for at that hour the anterooms of Romans of rank were commonly thronged.
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