Then, while everybody was raising exclamations at this news, he went up to Pierre, and shook hands with him in a significant manner.

And when he had taken a seat, he began to sound the praises of the President of the Republic, who, said he, was the only person able to save France from anarchy.
"Let him save it, then, as quickly as possible," interrupted the marquis, "and let him then understand his duty by restoring it to its legitimate masters." Pierre seemed to approve this fine retort, and having thus given proof of his ardent royalism, he ventured to remark that Prince Louis Bonaparte had his entire sympathy in the matter.

He thereupon exchanged a few short sentences with the commander, commending the excellent intentions of the President, which sentences one might have thought prepared and learnt beforehand.

Bonapartism now, for the first time, made its entry into the yellow drawing-room.

It is true that since the election of December 10 the Prince had been treated there with a certain amount of consideration.