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"If Buonaparte remains on the throne of France a year longer,"

the vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter

with which he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not

listen to others but follows the current of his own thoughts,

"things will have gone too far. By intrigues, violence, exile,

and executions, French society-I mean good French society-will

have been forever destroyed, and then...."

He shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. Pierre wished

to make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but Anna

Pavlovna, who had him under observation, interrupted: