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Ch. VI.]
the Emperor Napoleon.
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CHAPTER VI.

From the thicket the man-hunter sprung,
 My cries echoed loud through the air;
There was fury and wrath on his tongue,
 He was deaf to the voice of despair.

The Slave.

THE EMPEROR'S FAVOURITE RETREAT IN THE BRIARS GARDEN.—THE MALAY SLAVE.—NAPOLEON'S GENERAL INFORMATION AND VERSATILITY OF CONVERSATION.—CONSTERNATION OF CAPTAIN POPFLETON AT THE SUPPOSED ESCAPE OF HIS PRISIONER ON HIS FIRST RIDING EXCURSION AFTER NAPOLEON LEFT THE BRIARS.

THE only exception to the emperor's habits of regularity when with us was in his hour of rising. In the midst of our garden was a very large pond of transparent water, full of gold and silver fish; and near this was the grapery, formed of trellis-work, quite covered with vines of every description

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