I found excellent company; a superb repast, and wine of the gods.

Host and guests were in high spirits; and the pleasures of the table were kept up so late, that it was midnight when we rose.

I was obliged to return to Head-Quarters, having still to wait upon the King, as usual.

The Marechal was kind enough to lend me another horse; but the groom mischievously gave me the charger which the Marechal rode at the Battle of Mollwitz; a very powerful animal, and which, from that day, had grown very skittish.
"I was made aware of this circumstance, before we were fairly out of the Village; and the night being of the darkest, I twenty times ran the risk of breaking my neck.

We had to pass over a hill, to get to Head-Quarters.