(6) "I entreated to remain in the room with him, promising not to speak. He wrote for several hours without any interruption but the entrance and departure of the various messengers who were to take the orders. Every now and then I gave him a cup of green tea, which was the only refreshment he would take, and he rewarded me by a silent look. My feelings during these hours I cannot attempt to describe, but I preserved perfect outward tranquillity."--_Abridged Narrative._ (7) By 12 midnight, the _after orders_ had been despatched. With regard to the orders of the 15th and 16th June, including the "Disposition of the British Army at 7 o'clock A.M., 16th June," attributed to Sir William De Lancey, see Gurwood, vol. xii., pp. 472-474; _Supplementary Despatches_, vol. x., p. 496; Ropes' _Waterloo_, pp. 77-89; and Colonel Maurice in _U.S. Magazine_, 1890, pp. 144 and 257-263. (8) Doubtless, General Mueffling, Prussian attache at the headquarters of the Duke of Wellington. He accompanied the Duke to the ball, and next morning rode with him to Quatre Bras. (9) _I.e._, without changing their ball dress. Some of the officers were killed at Quatre Bras in their shoes and silk stockings. "There was a ball at Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's, that night (which I only mention because it was so much talked of), at which numbers of the officers were present, who quitted the ball to join their divisions, which had commenced their march before they arrived at their quarters, and some of them were killed the next day in the same dress they had worn at the ball." (Extract from a letter written by Colonel Felton Hervey shortly after the battle, and published in the _XIXth Century_ for March 1903, page 431.) See also Colonel Maurice in _U.S. Magazine_, 1890, p. 144.