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I am indeed inclined to regard that letter as the result of one of his private conferences with Lucien; but I know nothing positive on the subject, and merely mention this as a conjecture. However, I had an opportunity of ascertaining the curious circumstances which took place at Mittau, when Bonaparte's letter was delivered to Louis XVIII.
The Restoration, the Hundred Days, the second Restoration, Louis XVIII., and his flight to England; Charles X. and his abdication; her own husband, the Duc d'Angouleme the Dauphin for many years, the King for half an hour these are some of her experiences. She has lived for forty years in exile in Mittau, Memel, Warsaw, Konigsberg, Prague, England; and now she is at Frohsdorf, awaiting the end.
The Restoration, the Hundred Days, the second Restoration, Louis XVIII, and his flight to England; Charles X and his abdication; her own husband, the Duc d'Angouleme the Dauphin for many years, the King for half an hour these are some of her experiences. She has lived for forty years in exile in Mittau, Memel, Warsaw, Koenigsberg, Prague, England; and now she is at Frohsdorf, awaiting the end.
Napoleon has related "that M. de la Rochefoucauld formed at Paris a conspiracy in favour of the King, then at Mittau, the first act of which was to be the death of the Chief of the Government: The plot being discovered, a trusty person belonging to the police was ordered to join it and become one of the most active agents.
A Swedish victory, under Lewenhaupt, at Gemavers, in Courland, was neutralised by the capture of Mittau. But Poland was now torn from Augustus, and Charles's nominee, Stanislaus, was king. Denmark had been forced into neutrality; exaggerated reports of the defeat at Gemavers had once more stirred up the remnants of the old Strelitz.
"I have nearly killed her! And I have been tumbled out of Mittau as a pretender!" "You are here. Get some men to fight, and we will go back." "What a stroke to lose my senses at the moment I needed them most!" "You kept your scalp." "And not much else. No! If you refuse to follow me, and wait here at this post-house, I am going back to Mittau!" "I go where you go," said Skenedonk.
The prestige of his glory and his power demanded a decisive blow; and the emperor prepared for it at Vitebsk. Marshal Macdonald, however, had taken possession of Courland, after one battle before Mittau. The Russians everywhere retreated before him, evacuating even the stronghold of Dunaburg.
I am so happy it seems impossible that I come from Mittau, and this day the Marquis du Plessy died to me! I wish the sun had been tied to the trees, as the goose girl tied her gander." "But I want another day," said Eagle. "I want all the days that are my due at home." We ascended the steps of the stone pavilion, and sat down in an arch like a balcony over the sunken garden.
"But all Frenchmen," I could not help reminding the man in power, "are not faithful friends." He gave me a sharp look as he passed on, and repeated what I afterward learned was one of his favorite maxims: "A faithful friend is the true image." "Must you go to Mittau?" the Marquis du Plessy said when I told him what I intended to do.
"Get rid of him, Lazarre. He is fit for nothing but hanging upon some one who will feed him." "He is my master," I answered. "I am a fool myself." "You will come back from Mittau convinced of that, my boy. The wise course is to join yourself to events, and let them draw your chariot. My dislikers say I have temporized with fate. It is true I am not so righteous as to smell to heaven.
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