She saw the dual glance teeming with reciprocal menace.

She rose hastily and went to Bernadotte.
"General," said she.
Bernadotte bowed.
"You are intimate with Gohier, are you not ?" she continued.
"He is one of my best friends, madame," said Bernadotte.
"Well, we dine with him the day after to-morrow, the 18th Brumaire; dine there yourself and bring Madame Bernadotte.

I should be so glad to know her better." "Madame," said Bernadotte, "in the days of the Greeks you would have been one of the three graces; in the Middle Ages you would have been a fairy; to-day you are the most adorable woman I know." And making three steps backward, and bowing, he contrived to retire politely without including Bonaparte in his bow.

Josephine followed him with her eyes until he had left the room.

Then, turning to her husband, she said: "Well, it seems that it was not as successful with Bernadotte as with Moreau, was it ?" "Bold, adventurous, disinterested, sincere republican, inaccessible to seduction, he is a human obstacle.