You were unwilling to retrograde from Bonaparte to Monk; why should you expect him to descend from general to colonel?
Have you nothing else to say to me, citizen First Consul ?" "Yes.

Have you any way of transmitting my reply to the Comte de Provence ?" "You mean King Louis XVIII. ?" "Don't let us quibble over words.

To him who wrote to me." "His envoy is now at the camp at Aubiers." "Well, I have changed my mind; I shall send him an answer.

These Bourbons are so blind that this one would misinterpret my silence." And Bonaparte, sitting down at his desk, wrote the following letter with a care that showed he wished to make it legible: I have received your letter, monsieur.

I thank you for the good opinion you express in it of me.