Thus the purchaser of a chateau sometimes receives a letter addressed to the original proprietor.
Fougas returned by the _Rue de la Paix_ and the _Place Vendome_, and saluted, in passing, the only familiar figure he had yet found in Paris.
The new costume of Napoleon on the column did not displease him in any way.

He preferred the cocked hat to a crown, and the gray surtout to a theatrical cloak.
The night was restless.

In the Colonel's brain a thousand diverse projects crossed each other in all directions.

He prepared the little speech which he should make to the Emperor, going to sleep in the middle of a phrase, and waking up with a start in the attempt to lay hold on the idea which had so suddenly vanished.

He put out and relit his candle twenty times.