It was after such promenades, accompanied by this twofold movement of the shoulders and lips, that he dictated his most important notes.

On a campaign, with the army, on horseback, he was indefatigable; he was almost as much so in ordinary life, and would often walk five or six hours in succession without perceiving it.
When he walked thus with some one with whom he was familiar, he commonly passed his arm through that or his companion and leaned upon him.
Slender and thin as he was at the period when we place him before our readers' eyes, he was much concerned by the fear of future corpulence; it was to Bourrienne that he usually confided this singular dread.
"You see, Bourrienne, how slim and abstemious I am.

Well, nothing can rid me of the idea that when I am forty I shall be a great eater and very fat.

I foresee that my constitution will undergo a change.

I take exercise enough, but what will you!--it's a presentiment; and it won't fail to happen." We all know to what obesity he attained when a prisoner at Saint Helena.
He had a positive passion for baths, which no doubt contributed not a little to make him fat; this passion became an irresistible need.