For boys grow tired at last of plaguing one who has both spirit and pluck; and these Napoleon certainly possessed.

He had come to the school "a little savage," so the polished French boys declared.
"I was in Brienne," he said years afterwards, as he thought over his school-days, "the poorest of all my schoolfellows.

They always had money in their pockets; I, never.

I was proud, and was most careful that nobody should perceive this.

I could neither laugh nor amuse myself like the others.