a chain of the plaited hair of Maria Louisa, from a pin stuck
in the nankeen lining. In the right-hand corner was placed the little
plain iron camp-bedstead, with green silk curtains, on which its master
had reposed on the fields of Marengo and Austerlitz. Between the windows
there was a chest of drawers, and a bookcase with green blinds stood on
the left of the door leading to the next apartment. Four or five
cane-bottomed chairs painted green were standing here and there about the
room. Before the back door there was a screen covered with nankeen, and
between that and the fireplace an old-fashioned sofa covered with white
long-cloth, on which Napoleon reclined, dressed in his white
morning-gown, white loose trousers and stockings all in one, a chequered
red handkerchief upon his head, and his shirt-collar open without a
cravat. His sir was melancholy and troubled. Before him stood a little
round table, with some books, at the foot of which lay in confusion upon
the carpet a heap of those which he had already perused, and at the
opposite side of the sofa was suspended Isabey's portrait of the Empress
Maria Louisa, holding her son in her arms. In front of the fireplace
stood Las Cases with his arms folded over his breast and some papers in
one of his hands. Of all the former magnificence of the once mighty
Emperor of France nothing remained but a superb wash-hand-stand
containing a silver basin and water-jug of the same metal, in the
lefthand corner." The object of Napoleon in sending for O'Meara on this
occasion was to question him whether in their future intercourse he was
to consider him in the light of a spy and a tool of the Governor or as
his physician? The doctor gave a decided and satisfactory answer on this
point.

"During the short interview that this Governor had with me in my
bedchamber, one of the first things he proposed was to send you away,"
said Napoleon to O'Meara, "and that I should take his own surgeon in your
place. This he repeated, and so earnest was he to gain his object that,
though I gave him a flat refusal, when he was going out he turned about
and again proposed it."

On the 11th a proclamation was issued by the Governor, "forbidding any
persons on the island from sending letters to or receiving them from
General Bonaparte or his suite, on pain of being immediately arrested and
dealt with accordingly." Nothing escaped the vigilance of Sir Hudson
Lowe. "The Governor," said Napoleon, "has just