Consulat et l'Empire.]

[Footnote 8: This weather-beaten old building, though now an hotel, is but
little altered.]

[Footnote 9: Soph. Trach. 1266-72.]

[Footnote 10: This scene is a little antedated, to include it in the Act to
which it essentially belongs.]

[Footnote 11: "Quel bonhour que je n'aie aucun enfant pour recueillir mon
horrible heritage et qui soit charge du poids de mon nom!"--
[Footnote Extract from the poignant letter to his wife written on
this night.--See Lanfrey iii. 374.]

[Footnote 12: In those days the hind-part of the harbour adjoining this scene
was so named, and at high tides the waves washed across the isthmus
at a point called "The Narrows."

[Footnote 13: This General's name should, it is said, be pronounced in three
syllables, nearly PRESH-EV-SKY.]

[Footnote 14: It has been conjectured of late that these adventurous spirits
were Sir Robert Wilson and, possibly, Lord Hutchinson, present
there at imminent risks of their lives.]

[Footnote 15: The traditional present of the rose was probably on this
occasion, though it is not quite matter of certainty.]

[Footnote 16: At this date.]

[Footnote 17: So Madame Metternich to her husband in reporting this interview.
But who shall say!]

[Footnote 18: The writer has been unable to discover what became of this
unhappy lady and her orphaned infants.--[Footnote The foregoing note,
which appeared in the first edition of this drama, was the
means of bringing from a descendant of the lady referred to
the information she remarried, and lived and died at Venice;
and that both her children grew up and did well.--1909:

[Footnote 19: Thomas Young of Sturminster-Newton; served twenty-one years in
the Fifteenth [Footnote King's: Hussars; died 1853; fought at Vitoria, and
Waterloo.]

[Footnote 20: Hussars, it may be remembered, used to wear a pelisse, dolman, or
"sling-jacket" [Footnote as the men called: , which hung loosely over the
shoulder. The writer is able to recall the picturesque effect of
this uniform.]

[Footnote 21: Sheridan.]

[Footnote 22: This famous ball has become so embedded in the history of the
Hundred Days as to be an integral part of it. Yet in spite of
the efforts that have been made to locate the room which saw
the memorable gathering [Footnote by the present writer more than thirty
years back, among other enthusiasts: , a dispassionate judgment
must deny that its site has as yet been proven. Even Sir W.
Fraser