I shall expect you eagerly, Louis.

I rely upon your promise, for a Laval was never known to break one.' With another unanswered squeeze of my hand, he slipped off among the crowd, which was growing denser every instant in the salon.
I was standing in silence thinking over this sinister invitation of my uncle's, when I heard my own name, and, looking up, I saw de Caulaincourt, with his brown handsome face and tall elegant figure, making his way towards me.
'It is your first entrance at Court, is it not, Monsieur de Laval,' said he, in his high-bred cordial manner; 'you should not feel lonely, for there are certainly many friends of your father here who will be overjoyed to make the acquaintance of your father's son.

From what de Meneval told me I gather that you know hardly anyone--even by sight.' 'I know the Marshals,' said I; 'I saw them all at the council in the Emperor's tent.

There is Ney with the red head.

And there is Lefebvre with his singular mouth, and Bernadotte with the beak of a bird of prey.' 'Precisely.