. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. The Last Days of Napoleon, by Vela. The Camp Bed on Which He Died(Now cherished at Malmaison) ST. HELENA 469 gone away. The prisoner fancied that in the end no one butMarehand would remain and he said to his valet: You willread to me and you will close my eyes. So it might have been had he lived a little longer. ForMontholon keenly felt the absence of his wife, and he andthe Bertrands, too, were appealing for substitutes to relievethem when happily death came to the relief of the exile him-self. In much of the latter half of his m
. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. The Last Days of Napoleon, by Vela. The Camp Bed on Which He Died(Now cherished at Malmaison) ST. HELENA 469 gone away. The prisoner fancied that in the end no one butMarehand would remain and he said to his valet: You willread to me and you will close my eyes. So it might have been had he lived a little longer. ForMontholon keenly felt the absence of his wife, and he andthe Bertrands, too, were appealing for substitutes to relievethem when happily death came to the relief of the exile him-self. In much of the latter half of his more than five years ofexile, Napoleon was in the painful throes of cancer, althoughhis disease was not discovered by his physicians. The bitter-ness of the duel that never ceased to rage between him andLondon cut him off from the sympathy and consideration ofthe British government, and even to the last it was supposedthat he was only shamming. A political motive was sus-pected in his every action. When complaint was heard ofa swarm of rats that invaded Longwood, running about theEmperors feet,
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