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"I took good care that an occasional missent ball should bowl off the hat of M. Bouer, and whenever any particularly aristocratic aristocrat's head showed itself above the ramparts, an avalanche fell upon his facade with a dull, sickening thud.
Asked by a cribbing comrade in examination what a corollary was, Napoleon scornfully whispered back: "A mathematical camel with two humps." In German only was he deficient, much to the irritation of his instructor. "Will you ever learn anything?" asked M. Bouer, the German teacher. "Certainly," said Napoleon; "but no more German. I know the only word I need in that language."
In 1775 she wrote a romantic poem, entitled Sir Eldred of the Bouer, with which was published another poem, written earlier, The Bleeding Rock. In the first the element of religion was not forgotten; and both works met with a flattering reception.
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