Thereafter, in presence of your schoolmates assembled in the dining-room, you are to apologize to Mr.Bouquet, and ask pardon from me, as representing the school, for thus breaking the laws and acting as a bully and a murderer.

Go, sir, to your room, and assume the penitent's gown." Napoleon, as I have told you, was a high-spirited boy, and keenly felt disgrace.

This sentence was as humiliating and mortifying as anything that could be put upon him.

Rebel at it as he might, he knew that he would be forced to do it; and, distressed beyond measure at thought of what he must go through, he sought his room, and flung himself on his bed in an agony of tears.

He actually had what in these days we call a fit of hysterics.
While thus "broken up," his room door opened.