. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. ns in a lake, asthough Napoleon had blown them into it with the breath of hismouth; Wagram, where the army fought for three days withoutgrumbling. We won as many battles as there are saints in thecalendar. It was proved then beyond a doubt, that Napoleon hadthe sword of God in his scabbard. The soldiers were his friends;he made them his children; he looked after us; he saw that wehad shoes, and shirts, and great-coats, and bread, and cartridges;but he always kept up his majesty; for, dont you see, twas hisbusiness to reign. No matte
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. ns in a lake, asthough Napoleon had blown them into it with the breath of hismouth; Wagram, where the army fought for three days withoutgrumbling. We won as many battles as there are saints in thecalendar. It was proved then beyond a doubt, that Napoleon hadthe sword of God in his scabbard. The soldiers were his friends;he made them his children; he looked after us; he saw that wehad shoes, and shirts, and great-coats, and bread, and cartridges;but he always kept up his majesty; for, dont you see, twas hisbusiness to reign. No matter for that, however; a sergeant, andeven a common soldier could say to him, <My Emperor, just asyou say to me sometimes, <My good friend. He gave us ananswer if we appealed to him; he slept in the snow like therest of us; and indeed, he had almost the air of a human who speak to you, I have seen him with his feet among thegrapeshot, and no more uneasy than you are now,— standingsteady, looking through his field glass, and minding his >* i h g o g J .s H = < ^ a & H .§ a H Q- <i a K 1 § * o p-l 81 ask you, was that natural? would they have done that fora human man ? Well, after he had settled the world, the Empress Josephine,his wife, a good woman all the same, managed matters so thatshe did not bear him any children, and he was obliged to giveher up, though he loved her considerably. But, you see, he hadto have little ones for reasons of state. Hearing of this, all thesovereigns of Europe quarreled as to which of them should givehim a wife. And he married, st> they told us, an Austri
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