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George Cockburn, and was the only well-proportioned room of which Longwood could boast.

After all these chambers were exhibited, and commented on by Napoleon, he proceeded with us to the kitchen, where he desired Piron the confectioner to send in some creams and bon-bons for Miss Betsee. Thence we went to the larder, where he directed our attention to a sheep that was hanging up, and said, laughingly, "Regardez—voilà un mouton pour mon diner, dont on a fait une lanterne." And sure enough, it was so—the French servants having placed a candle in its lean carcass, through which the light shone.

After we had gone all over the rooms, he conducted us to those of Madame Montholon, and introduced me to a little stranger—the countess's baby, only then six weeks old, and which he began dandling so awkwardly, that we were in a state of terror lest he should let it fall. He occa-

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