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Ch. IX.]
the Emperor Napoleon.
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a beautiful little bonbonniére, which I had often admired, and said you can give it as a gage d'amour to le petit Las Cases. I burst into tears and ran out of the room. I stationed myself at a window from which I could see his departure, but my heart was too full to look on him as he left us, and throwing myself on the bed, I cried bitterly for a long time.

When my father returned, we asked him how the emperor liked his new residence. He said that he appeared out of spirits, and, retiring to his dressing-room, had shut himself up for the remainder of the day.

From the circumstance that my father was the emperor's purveyor, we had a general order to visit Longwood, and we seldom allowed a week to pass with-out seeing him. On these occasions, we generally arrived in time to breakfast with him at one, and returned in the evening. He was more subject to

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