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the Emperor Napoleon.
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moniously put her foot on his heel, because he stood bending before her, and nearly extinguishing her eye with the swallow tails of his uniform coat. The perplexity this occasioned him was considerable, from the difficulty he had in thrusting his foot again into its tiny case.

Napoleon was so amused with our description of young C———, that he begged us to bring him to Longwood, if he could get a pass; one was accordingly procured; and as the emperor's eye rested on him, putting on a most comical look, he told him that he had heard from Miss Betsee that he was a great dandy,—which was any thing but pleasing intelligence to the young hero, who began to think he was indebted for the honour of his interview with the great man to the circumstance of his being considered a sort of tom-fool. Napoleon, suiting his conversation (which, as I have before said, he always did) to his company, began admiring the cut of his coat, and said, "You are

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