Duologue -- Examples of Russian Cleverness -- Determination
to Return to France 142

CHAPTER XIII. GOOD-BY TO RUSSIA.

Departure from Moscow -- News of the Death of Paul --
Particulars of His Assassination -- Et tu Brute? -- Paul's
Presentiments of Peril -- His Successor Not an Accomplice in
the Crime -- Alexander I. a Popular Monarch -- An Order
from an Imperial Customer and Model -- Farewells to Friends
-- Among Them Czar and Czarina 154

CHAPTER XIV. HOMEWARD BOUND.

First Station, Narva -- The Cataract -- Riga -- Hardships of
Travel a Hundred Years Ago -- Obdurate Custom-House
Officials -- A Summons to Potsdam -- The Loveliest and
Sweetest of Queens -- Her Ugly Children -- An Ambitious Cook
-- The Journey Continued -- "Remember Your Jewel-Case" --
Modelling in Dirt for a Pastime -- Likewise Sewing -- Home
Again 164

CHAPTER XV. OLD FRIENDS AND NEW.

Paris After the Revolution -- Renewing Old Acquaintances and
Forming New Ties -- Rival Beauties: Mme. Recamier and Mme.
Tallien -- Mme. Campan -- An Englishwoman's Slip of the
Tongue -- Some Distinguished Foreigners 173

CHAPTER XVI. UNMERRY ENGLAND.

London -- Its Historic Piles -- And Dull Sundays -- And
Taciturn People -- Pictures by Sir Joshua Reynolds -- His
Modesty -- How to Dry Pictures in a Damp Climate -- The
Artistic View of a Certain Popular Beauty -- The Prince of
Wales -- His Alleged Attentions to Mme. Lebrun -- The
Authoress Lectures an Unfriendly Critic -- News of One of
Napoleon's "Atrocious Crimes" 182

CHAPTER XVII. PERSONS AND PLACES IN BRITAIN.

English Palaces -- And Scenery -- Suburban Princes --
Richmond Terrace -- An Eccentric Margravine -- The Charm of
the Isle of Wight -- The Britons a Stolid Nation -- Their
Indifference to Rain 192

CHAPTER XVIII. BONAPARTES AND BOURBONS.

Back in Paris -- The Devotion of Mme. Grassini --
Capricious, Exacting Mme. Murat -- Aspects of Christian
Warfare -- "Kill All Those People!" -- Louis XVIII. Enters
the Capital -- The Barrenness of Napoleon's Victories --
His Successor's Attainments -- Bourb