The manager told me that nothing that the conqueror of Italy wished for was impossible, for he had long ago erased that word from the dictionary.

Bonaparte laughed heartily at the manager's answer.

When we went to the theatre he seated himself, as usual, in the back of the box, behind Madame Bonaparte, making me sit by her side.

The pit and boxes, however, soon found out that he was in the house, and loudly called for him.

Several times an earnest desire to see him was manifested, but all in vain, for he never showed himself.
Some days after, being at the Theatre des Arts, at the second representation of 'Horatius Cocles', although he was sitting at the back of a box in the second tier, the audience discovered that he was in the house.