Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica

had ever loved that she was not satisfied to remain at Paris while he was conducting garden

urrienne, "and Josephine can't afford to be absent. It's a great business, this being a Dictator and having a court of your

xury, and in receipt f

e, Bonaparte carried t

th various powers w

every day he felt

consulting the Direct

rectory it might be wor

as I please, and if t

tify it

ventured to disagree with the future Emperor he wished he hadn't.

um," said he one day to Napoleon

cking up a vase of delicate wor

said Co

to the floor, where it was shattered int

Cobentzel;

d if you do not accept my ultimatum I'll smash the

ccepted the

ires of the Luxembourg," as the Directory were called, resolved on a brilliant stroke, which involved no less a venture than the inva

refused twenty million francs in bribes in two weeks. If they'd offered another sou I'm afraid I'd have taken it. I will therefore go to Paris, secure the command of the

onaparte was much c

creditors are glad to see me, and I'll show them that I

had patronized in his days of poverty. To his hat

veral times since I was here last, and it has chilled my nature. It has given me the grip, so

?" asked t

naparte, with a fro

had swelled," return

r this," murmured

er, with a sigh. "I was wo

apoleon. "Well, wonder no

tter d

e it," sai

" asked t

h, as he left the shop. "That's what I call a most successful hat-tal

Bourrienne. "The idea of your hav

realization of 'Whom I Am,' as they say in Boston. B

l's servant announced Mme. Sans Gene, his former laundress, and that celebrated w

e-?" he

laundress,"

nd you

," she

of my power. Here are three collars and a dress-shirt. If you will launder them I will wear them to the state ball to-morrow evening, and will tell all my rich and

ade against General Bonaparte at this time- first, that he returned from Egypt with a fort

and was abandoned, and the expedition to Egypt was

til spring, and, in the second place, I hate fogs and mutton-chops. Egypt is more to my taste. England would enervate me. Egypt, with the Desert of Sahara in its backyard, will

o to Egypt as he was to be sent. Their jealousy of

ate; and it will be near enough for excursion steamers to take the

a way that he will appear twice as great," suggested Carnot. "

o Egypt. Very likely he'll fall off

truck," sugg

s the pyramids or sunstroke, there are still the lions and the simoon, not to mention the

ith an army of forty thousand men and a magnificant s

got to hurry up and gain some more victories or these French will forget me. A man has

sked the sailor, who had not heard that war h

e people of the East f

on, lo

" said the sailor. "Who is it that'

ult the Directory,"

ave other thin

any other knights of more modern sort, surrendered in most hospitable fashion, inviting Napoleon to come asho

detachment of troops to guard his new acquisition, he proceeded to Alexandria, which he reached on the 1st of July. Here

the olive-branch in my hand. Greet me with outstretched palms. Do not fight me for I am come to save you, and I shall utterly obliterate any man, be he fellah, Moujik, or even the great Marmalade hims

riads of pestiferous insects that infested the country; but Napoleon cheered them on. "Soldiers!" he cried, when they complained, "if this were a summer resort, and you were paying five dollars a day for a room at a bad hotel, you'd t

" murmured one. "You've got a came

ng isn't like falling off a log. At first I was carried away with it, but f

muring, but Bonaparte did not fo

ile," said Dess

ilk, then?" aske

turned Dessaix; "but wh

d Napoleon, with a

d Dessaix, not obs

," said Napole

them. "Soldiers!" he cried, pointing to the pyramids, "from the summits of those pyramids forty centuries look down upon you. You can't see them, but they are there. No one should look down upon the French, not even a century. Therefore, I ask you,

" cried

arte. "This is to be no naval affair

pered, hastily, to his aide-de-camp. "It'll mak

ry history to need detailed statement here. All day long it raged, and when night fell Cai

ver." Then, turning and tapping on the door of the massive pile, he whispered, softly: "Ah! Ptolemy, my man, it's a pity you've no windows in this tomb. You'

, General," sai

" returned Napoleon,

, summoning Bourrienne,

a 'p,' why shouldn't I? I'm not going to have history say that a dead mum

says that you copy Caesar. Why give them the c

disappointment. "I had not thought of that. When you wr

neral," correc

ers-for the children of these Mamelukes,

ror went to sleep as pea

elf much misery. King of fire though he had become in the eye

e desert in my control, supposing them to be frigates and not camels, imagined himself living in Easy Street, and accepted the challenge. He expected me to sail around to the other side of Nelson, and so have him between two fires. Well, I don't go to sea on camels, as you know, and the result was that after a twenty-four-hour match the camels were the only ships we had left. Nelson had won the championship, laid the corn

. He took upon himself the government of Egypt, opened canals,

ture. It seemed to me that from that lofty altitude, chumming, as I was, with the forty centuries I have already alluded to, I could see two ways at once, that every glance could penetrate eternity; but I realize now

engaged in warfare, but not with his old success; and finally, the plague having attacked his army, Bonaparte, too tender-hearted to see it su

st. I got a view of the next three years from the top of Cheops last night just before sunset, and if that view is to be carried out my presence in Paris is positively required. The people are tired of

s after a consulship?" qu

hat consulship it is. The American consul-generalship at London is worth

t Jaffa business if they come here? That poiso

rte. "Give them all the delicacies of the season. When you serve the poisson, let it be wit

sked Kleber, who w

here the crocodiles are thickest-only either don't bathe with them yourself, or wear your mai

he obtuse Klebe

mains as I have said. They may feel badly at my going away and leaving them even with so pleasing a hired man as yourself, but comfort them, le

ctober Paris received him with open arms. That night the