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CHAPTER XX.

Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been—
A sound which makes us linger; yet—farewell!
Byron.

OUR FAREWELL VISIT TO THE EMPEROR.—EMBАRКАTION FOR ENGLAND.

IN consequence of my mother's health declining, from the enfeebling effects of the too warm climate of St. Helena, she was ordered by her medical adviser to try a voyage to England, as the only means of restoring her shattered constitution. The Winchelsea store-ship having arrived from China, my father took our passage on board, obtaining first, from Sir Hudson Lowe, six months leave of absence from his duties as purveyor to Napoleon and his suite, &c.

A day or two before we embarked, my

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