He seems to turn pale at will and his features contract"; he rises, steps up precipitately to the English ambassador, and fulminates for two hours before two hundred persons.
(Hansard's Parliamentary History, vol.XXVI, dispatches of Lord Whitworth, pp.

1798, 1302, 1310.)--"He often observes that the politician should calculate every advantage that could be gained by his defects." One day, after an explosion he says to Abbe de Pradt: "You thought me angry! you are mistaken.

Anger with me never mounts higher than here (pointing to his neck)."] [Footnote 1172: Roederer, III.

(The first days of Brumaire, year VIII.)] [Footnote 1173: Bourrienne, III., 114.] [Footnote 1174: Bourrienne, II., 228.

(Conversation with Bourrienne in the park at Passeriano.)] [Footnote 1175: Ibid., II., 331.