le bodily pain."--"Did she see that she was
dying? Did she show courage?"--"A sign her Majesty made when she could
no longer express herself leaves me no doubt that she felt her end
approaching; she seamed to contemplate it without fear."--"Well!--well!"
and then Napoleon much affected drew close to M. Horan, and added, "You
say that she was in grief; from what did that arise?"--"From passing
events, Sire; from your Majesty's position last year."--"Ah! she used to
speak of me then?"--"Very often." Here Napoleon drew his hand across
his eyes, which seemed filled with tears. He then went on. "Good
woman!--Excellent Josephine! She loved me truly--she--did she not? . . .
Ah! She was a Frenchwoman!"--"Yes, Sire, she loved you, and she
would have proved it had it not been for dread of displeasing you: she
had conceived an idea."--"How? . . . What would she have done?" "She one
day said that as Empress of the French she would drive through Paris
with eight horses to her coach, and all her household in gala livery, to
go and rejoin you at Fontainebleau, and never quit you mare."--"She
would have done it--she was capable of doing it!"

Napoleon again betrayed deep emotion, on recovering from which he asked
the physician the most minute questions about the nature of Josephine's
disease, the friends and attendants who were around her at the hour of
her death, and the conduct of her two children, Eugene and Hortense.

CHAPTER V.

1815.

Message from the Tuileries--My interview with the King--
My appointment to the office of Prefect of the Police--Council at
the Tuileries--Order for arrests--Fouches escape--Davoust
unmolested--Conversation with M. de Blacas--The intercepted letter,
and time lost--Evident understanding between Murat and Napoleon--
Plans laid at Elba--My departure from Paris--The post-master of
Fins--My arrival at Lille--Louis XVIII. detained an hour at the
gates--His majesty obliged to leave France--My departure for
Hamburg--The Duc de Berri at Brussels.

Those who opposed the execution of the treaty concluded with Napoleon at
the time of his abdication were guilty of a great error, for they
afforded him a fair pretext for leaving the island of Elba. The details
of that extraordinary enterprise are known to every one, and I shall not
repeat what has been told over and over again. For my own part, as soon
as I saw with what rapidity Bonaparte was marching upon Lyons, and the
enth