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THE GUESTS OF GENERAL BONAPARTE.
Josephine, in spite of her thirty-four years, or possibly because of them (that enchanting age when woman hovers between her passing youth and her corning age), Josephine, always beautiful, more graceful than ever, was still the charming woman we all know.

An imprudent remark of Junot's, at the time of her husband's return, had produced a slight coolness between them.

But three days had sufficed to restore to the enchantress her full power over the victor of Rivoli and the Pyramids.
She was doing the honors of her salon, when Roland entered the room.
Always incapable, like the true Creole she was, of controlling her emotions, she gave a cry of joy, and held out her hand to him.

She knew that Roland was devoted to her husband; she knew his reckless bravery, knew that if the young man had twenty lives he would willingly have given them all for Bonaparte.