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James Town, pomegranate, Napoleon | |
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Napoleon Bonaparte, Sir George Cockburn, BOARD THE NORTHUMBERLAND | |
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Napoleon, Gourgaud, Sir George Cockburn | |
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KING OF ROME, whist, Gourgaud | |
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Longwood, Captain Poppleton, Poppleton's | |
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empress Josephine, YEAR'S DAY, NAPO |
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LEAVE THE BRIARS, Betsee, smell of paint | |
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jaunting car, Sandy Bay, Montholon | |
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Lord Amherst, DEADWOOD, boa constrictor | |
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PEAK HILL, quadrille, prickly pear | |
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midshipman, Montholon, earthquake | |
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Eau medicinale, BON-BONS, saw Napoleon | |
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silver fish, NEWFOUNDLAND, Miss Betsee | |
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Cardinal Richelieu, prome, Talma | |
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Jaffa, Elba, opium | |
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mother's health, HELENA, bid adieu | |
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Bellerophon, Royal Marine, Sir Hudson Lowe |
With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away! - Page 39
The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to his holiness. Nay then, farewell! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. - Page 10
Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true. If true, here only, and of delicious taste. - Page 16
We found him in the billiard-room, employed looking over some very large maps, and moving about a number of pins, some with red heads, others with black. I asked him what he was doing. He replied that he was fighting over again some of his battles, and that the red-headed pins were meant to represent the English, and the black the French. - Page 119
Ye horrid towers, the abode of broken hearts ; Ye dungeons, and ye cages of despair, That monarchs have supplied from age to age With music, such as suits their sovereign ears, The sighs and groans of miserable men ! There's not an English heart that would not leap To hear that ye were fallen at last; to know That e'en our enemies, so oft employ'd In forging chains for us, themselves were free. - Page 137
I had anopportunity of scrutinizing his features, which I did with the keenest interest : and certainly I have never seen any one with so remarkable and striking a physiognomy. The portraits of him give a good general idea of his features, but his smile, and the expression of his eye, could not be transmitted to canvass, and these constituted Napoleon's chief charm. His hair was dark brown, and as fine and silky as a child's; rather too much so indeed for a man, as it caused it to look thin. - Page 21
Cases never liked me after this adventure, and used to call me a rude hoyden. I never met any one who bore these kind of things so well as Napoleon. He seemed to enter into every sort of mirth or fun with the glee of a child, and though I have often tried his patience severely, I never knew him to lose his temper, or fall back upon his rank or age, to shield himself from the consequences of his own familiarity and indulgence to me. I looked upon him indeed, when with him, almost as a brother or companion... - Page 39
Oui, oui," he replied, laughing violently ; " vous savez tres bien, c'est moi qui 1'a brule." On seeing him laugh, I gained a little courage, and said, " I believe, sir, the Russians burnt it to get rid of the French. - Page 24
O'Meara remarks, when alluding to my sister and myself dining one day with him, " His conversation was the perfection of causerie, and very entertaining." He was perhaps rather too fond of using direct compliments, but this was very pardonable in one of his rank and country. He remarked once, that he had heard a great deal of the beauty and elegance of the governor's daughter, and asked me who I thought the most beautiful woman in the island. I told him I thought Madame Bertrand superior beyond all... - Page 80
I saw the little black boys ready to start with our tin cases, without alas! my beautiful dress being in them. I was in despair, and hesitated whether I should not go in my plain frock, rather than not go at all; when to my great joy I saw the emperor running down the lawn to the gate with my dress. " Here, Miss Betsee, I have brought your dress, I hope you are a good girl now, and that you will like the ball; and mind that you dance with Gourgaud. - Page 51
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