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Recollections of
[Ch. X.

CHAPTER X.

While here shall be our home, what best may ease
The present misery, and render Hell
More tolerable; if there be cure or charm
To respite, or deceive, or slack the pain
Of this ill mansion.

Milton.

         Here I, and sorrow sit,
Here is my throne.

Shakspeare.

OUR FIRST VISIT TO NAPOLEON AT LONGWOOD.—DESCRIPTION OF IT.—HIS PLEASURE AT SERING US.—ANECDOTE OF THE MARQUIS DE M———.—NAPOLEON'S ANIMATED ACCOUNT OF SIR W. D.'S HOSPITALITY AND THE BEAUTY OF "FAIRY LAND," ETC.

WITH the assistance of my daughter's pencil, and some rough sketches I had by me, I have been enabled to give a view of the Briars, and the cottage occupied by Napoleon, whilst he stayed with us. He certainly appeared very contented during that time, and frequently expressed a strong de-

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