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" sometimes an idea of quitting you, and this " would not be very difficult ; it is only necessary " to create a little mental excitement, and I shall " soon have escaped. — All will be over, and you " can then quietly rejoin your families. This is "... "
Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution - Page 127
by Walter Scott - 1835
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The Napoleon Anecdotes: Illustrating the Mental Energies of the ..., Volume 3

William Henry Ireland - 1823 - 332 pages
...cahin; he seemed calm, though affected, and somewhat absent. " My friend," continued the emperor, " I have sometimes an idea of quitting you, and this...have escaped — all will be over, and you can then tranquilly rejoin your families. This is the more easy, since my internal principles do not oppose...
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Mémorial de Sainte Hélène: Journal of the Private Life and ..., Issue 1

Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases - Authors, French - 1823 - 792 pages
...cabin ; he seemed calm, though affected, and somewhat absent. " My friend," continued the Emperor, " I have " sometimes an idea of quitting you, and this...escaped. — All will be over, and you " can then tranquilly rejoin your families. This " is the more easy, since my internal principles do " not oppose...
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The Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon, Volume 1

Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases - 1835 - 822 pages
...cabin ; he seemed calm, though affected, and somewhat absent. " My friend," continued the Emperor, " I have " sometimes an idea of quitting you, and this...over, and you " can then quietly rejoin your families. This is " the more easy, since my internal principles do " not oppose any bar to it :— I am one of...
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Napoleon Buonaparte

Sir Walter Scott - France - 1835 - 436 pages
...case such a scheme were prosecuted. Savary and Lallemand were, it must be owned, under circumstances peculiarly painful. They had been among the list of...quitting you, and this would not be very difficult ; it a only necessary to create a little mental excitement, and I shall «oon hare escaped. All will be...
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The Book of Human Character, Volume 1

Charles Bucke - Anecdotes - 1837 - 364 pages
...destined theatre of reflection, could argue in its defence, after the following manner : ' My friend ! I have sometimes an idea of quitting ' you ; and this...have escaped. All will be over, and you ' can then tranquilly rejoin your families. This is the ' more easy, since my principles do not oppose any bar...
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The History of Napoleon, Volume 2

Richard H. Horne - France - 1841 - 668 pages
...should entertain, than that he had any real intention of the kind. "My friend," said he to Las Casas, "I have sometimes an idea of quitting you, and this...necessary to create a little mental excitement, and 1 shall soon have escaped.—All will be over, and you can then quietly rejoin your families. This...
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History of Napoleon: From the French of M. Laurent de L'Ardeche ..., Volume 2

Paul Mathieu Laurent (called de l'Ardèche) - France - 1843 - 486 pages
...others when he wishes that his dependence should cease? — My friend," he continued, after a pause, " I have sometimes an idea of quitting you, and this...necessary to create a little mental excitement, and I no shall soon have escaped. All will be over, and you can then quietly rejoin your families. This is...
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The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Volume 3

William Hazlitt - France - 1847 - 492 pages
...: Napoleon seemed calm, though strongly affected, and somewhat absent. " My friend," he continued, "I have sometimes an idea of quitting you, and this...would not be very difficult : it is only necessary to give way to a little mental excitement, and I shall soon have escaped. All will be over ; and you can...
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Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon, Volume 1

Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases - 1855 - 434 pages
...cabin ; he seen.ed calm, though affected, and somewhat absent. " My friend," continued the Emperor, " I have sometimes an idea of quitting you, and this...very difficult ; it is only necessary to create a litth mental excitement, and I shall soon have escaped. — All will te over, and you can then quietly...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Napoleon

Walter Scott - 1870 - 436 pages
...circumstances peculiarly painful. They had been among the list of persons excluded from the i i j-" i yfy friend,' said the Emperor to me, ' I have sometimes...quitting you, and this would not be very difficult ; it ia only necessary to create a little mental excitement, and I shall toon have escaped. All will be...
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