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Ch. IX.]
the Emperor Napoleon.
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CHAPTER IX.
If I should sleep, or eat,
'Twere deadly sickness, or else present death.
'Twere deadly sickness, or else present death.
Sorrow on thee, and all the pack of you,
That triumph thus upon my misery!
Go! get theeo gone, I say!
Shakspeare.
That triumph thus upon my misery!
Go! get theeo gone, I say!
Shakspeare.
THE RAGE OF THE EMPEROR ON HEING TOLD HE WAS TO LEAVE THE BRIARS FOR LONGWOOD.—HIS HORROR OF THE SMELL OF PAINT.—OUR SORROW AT HIS DEPARTURE.—HIS PRESENT TO MY MOTHER AND MYSELF.—OUR IMPRESSION OF HIS CHARACTER, ETC.
As the time drew near, for Napoleon's removal from the Briars to Longwood, he would come into the drawing-room oftener, and stay longer. He would, he said, have preferred altogether remaining at the Briars; because he beguiled the hours with us better than he ever thought it possible he could have done on such a horrible rock as St. Helena.