The measuring-board against which he took the stature of his tall grenadiers is there, and one room is devoted to those masterpieces which he used to paint in the agonies of gout.

His chef d'oeuvre contains a figure with two left feet, and there seemed no reason why it might not have had three.

In another room is a small statue of Carlyle, who did so much to rehabilitate the house which the daughter of it, Wilhelmina, did so much to demolish in the regard of men.
The palace is now mostly kept for guests, and there is a chamber where Napoleon slept, which is not likely to be occupied soon by any other self-invited guest of his nation.

It is perhaps to keep the princes of Europe humble that hardly a palace on the Continent is without the chamber of this adventurer, who, till he stooped to be like them, was easily their master.

Another democracy had here recorded its invasion in the American stoves which the custodian pointed out in the corridor when Mrs.March, with as little delay as possible, had proclaimed their country.