. Memoirs of Madame Junot (Duchesse D'Abrantès). n. My Paris friends are in favour of thismatch. My old friends dissuade me from it. For myown part, I wish to marry, and what I propose to yousuits me in many respects. Think about it. My mother broke off the conversation, telling him,laughingly, that for her own part she had no occasion tothink any further; but, as to what concerned my brother,she would speak to him about it, and communicate hisanswer on the Tuesday following — it was then gave him her hand, and repeated, still laughing, thatthough she had some pretensions, they di
. Memoirs of Madame Junot (Duchesse D'Abrantès). n. My Paris friends are in favour of thismatch. My old friends dissuade me from it. For myown part, I wish to marry, and what I propose to yousuits me in many respects. Think about it. My mother broke off the conversation, telling him,laughingly, that for her own part she had no occasion tothink any further; but, as to what concerned my brother,she would speak to him about it, and communicate hisanswer on the Tuesday following — it was then gave him her hand, and repeated, still laughing, thatthough she had some pretensions, they did not aspire sohigh as to conquer the heart of a man of twenty-six, andthat she hoped their friendship would not be interruptedby this little affair. At any rate, think of it, said Bonaparte. Well, well, I will think of it, replied my mother,laughing as heartily as before. I was too young to be made acquainted with this con-versation at the time when it occurred. It was not till Jerome Bonaparte. Photo-Etching.— After the Engraving by A GREEK ALLIANCE. 149 my marriage that my mother related to me the particu-lars here detailed. My brother made a note of thissingular affair. Had Bonapartes overtures been accepted,he would never have become what he afterwards was. When Junot heard of it he told us that the thing ap-peared less extraordinary to him than to us. About the4th of October Bonaparte had got himself appointed tosome committee of war ; I know not what the appointmentwas, but it was no great thing. His plans, his schemes,had all one object, one direction, which tended towardsthe East. The name of Comnena might have a powerfulinterest for an imagination that was eminently creative;the name of Calomeros joined to that of Comnena mightbe of great service to him. The great secret of all thesematches lay in that idea, thought Junot ; and I think sotoo. A cousin of my mother, named Dimo Stephanopoli, hadshortly before arrived from Corsica and applied to her toassist
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