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Updated: July 3, 2025
I am no prince, I am the King of Rome," cried the boy, in the most violent anger. "I will not go! "'Quiou, dear 'Quiou!" cried the child, "oh, come to my assistance! I will not leave my house!" "Sire," said Madame de Montesquieu, weeping, "we must leave: the emperor has ordered us to do so!" "It is false!" cried the prince, bursting into a flood of tears, and still trying to disengage himself.
"Sire," he said, "my dear Madame 'Quiou tells me often a king ought to keep his word. Now I ask you must an emperor not keep his word also?" "Certainly, sire!" "Well, then, your majesty, take me to Madame 'Quiou," cried the boy, joyously; "you told her you would do so. Come, papa!"
The boy saw it, and asked hastily, "Why do you laugh, 'Quiou? Did I say any thing ridiculous?" "No, rather something charming," said the emperor, smiling, laying his hand on the blond head of his child, and pressing it closer to his breast. With the child still in his arms, he seated himself in an easy-chair, and, placing the little fair-haired king on his knee, gazed at him with joyful eyes.
"Papa," he cried, in an imploring tone "papa, have you not given me permission to come to you at any time?" "Yes, sire," said the emperor, tenderly, lifting him into his arms, "and the proof of it is that you are here." "Well, dear 'Quiou," asked the boy, in a triumphant tone, turning toward Madame de Montesquiou "did I not tell you so?
With a sullen face and without looking at any one, the child, so intelligent for his years, stepped through the room directly toward his mother. "Mamma empress," he said, in his silvery voice, "my 'Quiou says that we are about to leave Paris, and shall no longer live at the Tuileries. Is that true, mamma?" "Yes, my son, we must leave," said the empress, in a low voice, "but we shall return."
Let me stay here with my mother, dear 'Quiou; I do not disturb her, for you see she is not busy, and she does not want to be alone either, for there are a great many persons with her. Therefore, I may stay here, too, may I not, dear mamma empress!" "Yes, my son, stay here," said the empress, abstractedly, looking again at the door.
The emperor probably read this in their eyes, for he greeted the gentlemen with a pleasant smile, and nodded to them with the triumphant air of a happy father. "Papa emperor," exclaimed the child, turning once more to his father, "my dear Madame 'Quiou says that France has now need of prosperity, and that I, therefore, ought to pray the good God to grant us His favor."
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