If you had been but four to one against us, you would never have conquered us.

But, behold! you were ten to one! That is too much to struggle against." "And yet you boast of your general--your leader," said the other boy.
"You say he is a fine commander--this--how do you call him ?--this Paoli." "I say so; yes, sir," Napoleon replied sadly.

Then, as if his ambition led him on, he added, "I would like to be like him.

What could I not do then!" This feeling of being a Corsican, an outsider at the school, made the boy quiet and retiring.

He kept by himself, just as he had at home when things did not suit him; he walked out alone, and played with no one.