In 1814, we learned the finish of the war, the banishment of the Emperor to the Isle of Elba, and the return of the Bourbons.

In concert with the Prussians and Russians, who had brought them back, they had exiled the Emperor.
Learning all this, your mother said to the general: 'The war is finished; you are free, but your Emperor is in trouble.

You owe everything to him; go and join him in his misfortunes.

I know not when we shall meet again, but I shall never marry any one but you, I am yours till death!'-- Before he set out the general called me to him, and said: 'Dagobert, remain here; Mademoiselle Eva may have need of you to fly from her family, if they should press too hard upon her; our correspondence will have to pass through your hands; at Paris, I shall see your wife and son; I will comfort them, and tell them you are my friend.'" "Always the same," said Rose, with emotion, as she looked affectionately at Dagobert.
"As faithful to the father and mother as to their children," added Blanche.
"To love one was to love them all," replied the soldier.

"Well, the general joined the Emperor at Elba; I remained at Warsaw, concealed in the neighborhood of your mother's house; I received the letters, and conveyed them to her clandestinely.