emanded her rights as one of the
imperial family." The contest was unequal. She was sent back to America,
and the marriage declared null and void. Her son, Jerome, was born in
England, July 7, 1805. She was never allowed to see her husband again,
yet her ambitious projects for "Bo," as she called her son, were
unremitting until the downfall of the Bonarparte[TN-72] family. After
this, she aimed to ally him with the English nobility, a design thwarted
by his love-match with a lovely Baltimorean. She was an able financier,
and became one of the richest women in Baltimore. Retaining her mind and
many traces of her extraordinary beauty to the last, she died, April 3,
1879, at the age of ninety-four.

"By the laws of justice and of the Church she was a queen, although
she was never allowed to reign.... There was about her the
brilliancy of courts and palaces, the enchantment of a love-story,
the suffering of a victim of despotic power."--Eugene D[`i]dier,
_Life and Letters of Madame Bonaparte_ (1879).

=Patty=, "the maid of the mill," daughter of Fairfield, the miller. She
was brought up by the mother of Lord Aimworth, and was promised by her
father in marriage to Farmer Giles; but she refused to marry him, and
became the bride of Lord Aimworth. Patty was very clever, very pretty,
very ingenuous, and loved his lordship to adoration.--Bickerstaff, _The
Maid of the Mill_ (1765).

=Pattypan= (_Mrs._), a widow who keeps lodgings, and makes love to Tim
Tartlet, to whom she is ultimately engaged.

By all accounts, she is just as loving now as she was thirty years
ago.--James Cobb, _The First Floor_, i. 2 (1756-1818).

=Patullo= (_Mrs._), waiting-woman to Lady Ashton.--Sir W. Scott, _Bride of
Lammermoor_ (time, William III.).

=Pau-Puk-Keewis=, a cunning mischief-maker, who taught the North American
Indians the game of hazard, and stripped them, by his winnings, of all
their possessions. In a mad freak Pau-Puk-Keewis entered the wigwam of
Hiawatha and threw everything into confusion; so Hiawatha resolved to
slay him. Pau-Puk-Keewis, taking to flight, prayed the beavers to make
him a beaver ten times their own size. This they did; but when the other
beavers made their escape, at the arrival of Hiawatha, Pau-Puk-Keewis
was hindered from getting away by his great size; and Hiawatha slew him.
His spirit, escaping, flew upwards, and prayed the storm-fools to make
him a "brant" ten times t