Every now and then one finds in the forest large stepping stones; and as we were going on very gently my horse stumbled on one covered with sand, which he did not see; but I easily held him up, and we went on....

Esterhazy was at our ball yesterday.

Every one was greatly pleased with his dignified manner and with his style of dancing.

I ought to have spoken to him when he was presented to me, and my silence only proceeded from embarrassment, as I did not know him.

It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country; I have more reason than any one to feel, every day of my life, the value of the blood which flows in my veins, and it is only from prudence that at times I abstain from showing how proud I am of it....