The nobles will never consent to it.

I have tried my ground.

The time is not yet come.

I should be alone.

But I will dazzle them again." I replied, "Well, we will go to Egypt;" and changed the conversation.
-- [Lucien and the Bonapartists of course deny that Napoleon wished to become Director, or to seize on power at this time; see Lucien, tome 1.p.154.Thiers (vol.v.p.