Now all these men were replaced by Speranski on the civil side, and Arakcheev on the military.

Soon after his arrival Prince Andrew, as a gentleman of the chamber, presented himself at court and at a levee.

The Emperor, though he met him twice, did not favor him with a single word.

It had always seemed to Prince Andrew before that he was antipathetic to the Emperor and that the latter disliked his face and personality generally, and in the cold, repellent glance the Emperor gave him, he now found further confirmation of this surmise.