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Recollections of
[Ch. II.

CHAPTER II.

        Nay, then farewell!
I've touched 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.

ALARM FROM LADDER HILL.—SHIP IN SIGHT.—NEWS OF THE EXPECTED ARRIVAL OF NAPOLEON.—OUR DISBELLEF OF THE REPORT, AND MY CHILDISH FEARS.—THE ARRIVAL OF SIR GEORGE COCKBURN, ON BOARD THE NORTHUMDERLAND, WITH HIS ILLUSTRIOUS PRISONER NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.—THE EMPEROR'S LANDING, AND ANNOYANCE AT BEING STARED AT.

We had been living for years in this romantic and secluded glen, when our little "isle was suddenly frighted from its propriety" by hearing that Napoleon Bonaparte was to be confined as a prisoner of state. It was in October, 1815, that this news first burst upon us. We heard one morning an

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