It was the only time in my life that my mother herself ever whipped me.

I don't believe Pauline ever forgot it.

I never did." So it was Mamma Letitia who first spoke on the arrival at home; and her first question was as to the children who had remained behind.
"Where is Napoleon?
Where is Pauline ?" she asked.
Little Pauline sprang from behind her uncle the canon.
"I am here, mamma," she said, and threw herself in her mother's arms.
"But where is Napoleon ?" "He has not been good, mamma," Pauline replied.

"See! he is there, behind the door.

He dare not come out.