1 He is one of the genuine emigres, the good ones.
2 I must put in an appearance there, said the prince.
3 "I shall be delighted to meet them," said the prince.
4 I have faith only in God and the lofty destiny of our adored monarch.
5 Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes.
6 Anna Pavlovna Scherer on the contrary, despite her forty years, overflowed with animation and impulsiveness.
7 England with her commercial spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander's loftiness of soul.
8 She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite.
9 With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception.
10 He went up to Anna Pavlovna, kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, and complacently seated himself on the sofa.
11 The English have not understood and cannot understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for himself, but only desires the good of mankind.
12 I think," said the prince with a smile, "that if you had been sent instead of our dear Wintzingerode you would have captured the King of Prussia's consent by assault.
13 Set your friend's mind at rest, said he without altering his tone, beneath the politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony could be discerned.
14 To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who knew her.
15 "If they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have been put off," said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed.
16 He spoke in that refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance who had grown old in society and at court.
17 "A propos," she added, becoming calm again, "I am expecting two very interesting men tonight, le Vicomte de Mortemart, who is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best French families."
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