Alas! not one of us reached the goal aimed at by his valor, and I have learned to-day that France was not saved.

But when I see these blockheads of historians asserting that the Emperor forgot to send orders to General Rapp, I feel a terrible itching to cut their -- -- story short, at least.
"'When a prisoner in the hands of the Russians in a German village, I had the consolation of finding an old philosopher, who gave me the rarest proofs of friendship.

Who would have told me, when I succumbed to the numbness of the cold in the tower of Liebenfeld, that that sleep would not be the last?
God is my witness, that in then addressing, from the bottom of my heart, a last farewell to Clementine, I did not even hope to see her again.

I will see you again, then, O sweet and confiding Clementine--best of spouses, and, probably, of mothers! What do I say?
I see her now! My eyes do not deceive me! This is surely she! There she is, just as I left her! Clementine! In my arms! On my heart! Look here! What's this you've been whining to me, the rest of you?
Napoleon is not dead, and the world has not grown forty-six years older, for Clementine is still the same!" The betrothed of Leon Renault was about entering the room, and stopped petrified at finding herself so overwhelmingly received by the Colonel..