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Updated: June 21, 2025
The anterooms were deserted; the generals remained all day in the audience-room, and gazed with sullen faces upon the door of the imperial cabinet. But this door did not open. In the cabinet the emperor was still on his sofa, now leaning back in meditation, and now bending over the map-table, and writing slowly.
Standing up beside the map-table, and leaning his hand upon it, he asked, vehemently, "Well, Maret, what is it?" "Sire, I have come only to deliver to your majesty a few letters which the courier has just brought from Paris," said the duke, handing him some sealed packages. "Is a letter from the empress among them?" asked Napoleon, hastily. "Yes, sire."
The generals remained in the audience-room and waited. An hour passed, when Constant, pale and sad, entered the room; he held a large, crumpled sheet of paper in his hand. "The emperor has retired," he whispered. "He called me, and when I entered the cabinet, he was still sitting on the sofa at the map-table, and engaged in writing.
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