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In this enthusiastic love for country, De Beauharnais accepted cheerfully the offered command of the Army of the Rhine as general- in-chief, and he prepared himself to march to the rescue of besieged Mayence. Whilst General de Beauharnais was on the French frontier, Josephine trembled with anxious misgivings.
A moment later, while she was still agitated, she saw the Emperor burst into her room, holding the young Prince by the hand, and pushing him forward as he exclaimed: "Here, Madame, is your great booby of a son whom I'm bringing to you." Josephine burst into tears, and pressed her son to her heart. Eugene de Beauharnais, a French Prince, and Viceroy of Italy, was then twenty-four years old.
"Josephine had a faded and brown complexion, which she remedied with rouge and powder; her small mouth concealed her bad teeth; her elegant figure and graceful movements, refined expression, gentle voice and dignity, all dexterously expressed with an air of coquetry, made her delightful."
"I've something at last to report to you about Kennedy," he said a moment later, clearing his throat. Aunt Josephine turned from us as Elaine and I rode off on our horses from Dodge Hall considerably worried. Then an idea seemed to occur to her and she walked determinedly into the house. "Jennings," she called to the butler, "have the limousine brought around from the garage immediately."
Mademoiselle Josephine de Temninck was coquettish from nobility of soul. The sense of her obvious imperfections made her as difficult to win as the handsomest of women.
The whole, however, Was not disposed of in presents. A considerable portion was reserved fob paying Josephine's debts, and this business appears to me to deserve some remarks. The estate of Malmaison had cost 160,000 francs. Josephine had purchased it of M. Lecouteuix while we were in Egypt.
This is not right, madame!" Josephine never gave him a similar cause of complaint, but even when he was Emperor she often made him murmur at the profusion of her expenditure under this head. The next anecdote will give some idea of the quantity of dresses which she wore for a day or so, and then gave away to her attendants, who appear to have carried on a very active trade in them.
It was interesting but not brilliant. The girl did not have sufficient temperament to bind him beyond a period of rather idle investigation. There was still, for a little while, another woman, whom he had known a Mrs. Josephine Ledwell, a smart widow, who came primarily to gamble on the Board of Trade, but who began to see at once, on introduction, the charm of a flirtation with Cowperwood.
Rose burst out crying. "O Josephine! is it come to this? Would you deceive ME?" "You have deceived ME! Yes! it has come to that. I know all. Twill not consent to destroy ALL I love." She then begged hard for leave to send the letter. Rose gave an impetuous refusal. "What could you say to him? foolish thing, don't you know him, and his vanity?
Napoleon was now at the zenith of his fame. But the feeling of the country at his divorcing Josephine, who loved him deeply, was a thrill of indignation, for the tie of marriage was now considered irrevocable save for the gravest cause.
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