After which, as she was passing in front of the imperial stand, the sight of Muffat, looming in all his official stiffness by the side of the empress, made her very merry.
"Oh, how silly he looks!" she said at the top of her voice to Vandeuvres.

She was anxious to pay everything a visit.

This small parklike region, with its green lawns and groups of trees, rather charmed her than otherwise.

A vendor of ices had set up a large buffet near the entrance gates, and beneath a rustic thatched roof a dense throng of people were shouting and gesticulating.

This was the ring.