Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica

0, which marked the beginning of Bonapa

said the Emper

tes, and there's but one opinion among 'em all. You've got to do something new or stop the show. If you'd only done what I suggested

torted Napoleon. "At Ratisbon our i

If you'd lost it, and come home without it, there'd have been evidence of your

he Emperor, sternly

a great deal of interest in this Empire. It pays me my salary, and I've had charge of the calcium lights for some time, and I don't want our lustre dimmed, but it will be dimmed unless, as I have already told you a millio

asked Bonaparte, recognizing

ought to get mar

you-you-idiot,"

her people away at a great rate for several years-what's

do you?" asked Bon

followed by an imperial wedding, would rattle the bones of this bl

hrone and putting his hand to the side of h

the door and come here. We wa

r did as he

a mind-reader. We've been thinking of just that very thing for some time-in fact, ever

this match, and publicly perhaps I may seem to do so, but you will understand, my dear Sire, that this opposition will serve, as it is designed to serve

st get rid of our leading lady b

d we should prefer to pass it over in silence. We allude to it here merely to show that it was brought about by the exigencies of his office, and that it was nothing short of heroic self-abnegation wh

elings of the divorced Josephine, wooed Marie-Louise by proxy in

he wound is beginning to heal. We fear we shall never love again, but for the sake of the Empire we will now

ise became Empress of France. Josephine, meanwhile, had

d not turn out so highly successful as professional kings as he had hoped, and it became necessary to depose Louis the King of Holland and place him under arrest. Joseph, too, desired to resign the Spanish throne, which he had found to be far from comfortable

s are never agreeable, and the circumstances of this are so peculiar t

ion-don't you?" aske

If she and Josephine got chumming and compared notes, I

ror that he dismissed him from his

and die. I know it well; but let me tell you that the reaction is nearly due, and with the loss of your stage manager the farc

eror. For a moment they cleared away when the infant son of Marie-Louise and Bonap

-law named his boy, F

der of

e," returned

not after you-or me? The coxco

ly relations between Alexander and Bonaparte grew out of other causes, but the truth is as indicated in this sto

hard-fought battles th

cow, but Napoleon's

powers of enunciation to speak the honeyed names of Italy; the Austrian tongue never bothered me; but when I try to inspire my soldiers with remarks like, 'On to Smolensko!' or 'Down with Rostopchin!' and 'Shall we be discouraged because Tchigagoff, and Kutusoff, and Carrymeoffski, of the Upperjnavyk Cgold Sdream Gards, oppose us?' I want to lie down and die. What is the sense of these barbed-wire

looked out o

from appearances that it's the hotte

ithin him. He looked and

cal soldiers are you? Ring up the fire department! Ah, Fouche, Fouc

ty years now experienced the bitterness of defeat. Rushing through the blazing

, "that that Moscow fire has

left his troops under the command of Ney and pushed rapidly on, travelling incognito, not being

nurse, and I understand also that there is a conspiracy to steal the throne and sell it. This must not be. Reassure the army of my love. Tell them that

ull during his absence, and his return meant excitement. The total loss of the French in thi

the army. The Russians have captured three thousand and forty-eight officers whose places must be filled. If that isn't encouragement to join the army I expect to raise

heart of France. Storms gathered, war-clouds multiplied, the nations of the earth united against him, the King of Rome began cutting his teeth and destroyed the Em

e the prompter's box has been empty, and I don't know what to do. The world is against me-even France. I see but one thing left. Do you think I could res

onquer China; then they'd have demanded a war with Japan, after which they'd have dethroned you if you didn't annex the Sandwich Islands to the United States, and then bag the whole thing for France. This is what you get for wanting to rule the French people. You can't keep quiet-you've got to have a move on you constantly or t

poleon, with a frown. "What

ather of a real Emperor's grandson, you had a valid claim to respectability,

was standing up for

or, f

one of those double back-action re

what he pleases; he's my son, and he has that right.

ee things left

" asked th

on-if you abdicate you may come back, and the trouble will begin all over again. If you commit suicide, you won't have any more rows. The French will be sta

read what the papers said about it. As for writing Trilby, it would do more for royalty than for me. Therefore I will go to Fontain

on received less than a year after. Escorted by four commissioners, one from each of the great allied powers, Austria, Russia, England, and Prussia, and attended by a few attached friends and servants, Bonapa

You sigh?" cr

rted glory, but because I am a livin

, Sire?" as

ed, in a tone rendered doubly impressive by the fact that it reminded one of Henry Irving in one of