"Your Majesty forgets that I cannot understand you," replied the Pumpkinhead.
"Did you understand that sign?" asked His Majesty, politely.
"Thus it is peremptorily his Majesty's orders that the whole French inhabitants of these Districts be removed; and I am, through his Majesty's goodness, directed to allow you liberty to carry off your money and household goods, as many as you can without discommoding the vessels you go in.
The prisoners expressed the greatest concern at having incurred his Majesty's displeasure, and in a petition addressed to Colonel Winslow intreated him to detain a part of them as sureties for the appearance of the rest, who were desirous of visiting their families, and consoling them in their distress and misfortunes.
"Sire," replied the courtier, laughing, in order that he might seem to comprehend the quotation, "your majesty may be perfectly right in relying on the good feeling of France, but I fear I am not altogether wrong in dreading some desperate attempt."
"Monsieur," said the baron to the duke, "all the servants of his majesty must approve of the latest intelligence which we have from the Island of Elba.
"My most instant duty appeared to me to be your
majesty's release.
"Ah, sire; it is because I confide in that justice that I shall wait patiently and quietly the good pleasure of your
Majesty."
Now, this evening, they saw that your
majesty colored with endeavoring to conceal the inclination to yawn, that your
majesty looked with eloquent supplications, first at his eminence, and then at her
majesty, the queen-mother, and at length to the entrance door, and they so thoroughly remarked all I have said, that they saw your
majesty's lips articulate these words: `Who will get me out of this?'"
His imperial
majesty spoke often to me, and I returned answers: but neither of us could understand a syllable.
"Laporte," said Anne of Austria, in an undertone, "find some very dull book to read to his
majesty, but do not undress yourself."
Your
Majesty's Royal Brother, the Emperor of Bang, is anxious to purchase it, but loyalty to your
Majesty's throne and person constrains me to offer it first to your
Majesty.
