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Ch. XIII.]
the Emperor Napoleon.
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body on the way. Moreover, his gnolers had not the decency to wash away the dead man's brains, which had been scattered on the wall, but left then there for the special annoyance of the living occapant. Besides that, he accuses you of nearly starving him to such an extent did he suffer from want of food, that he and Captain Shaw, a fellow-sufferer, once tore a live duck to pieces, and devoured it like cannibals."

The emperor observed, that it was not to be wondered at that Captain Wallis was so inveterate against him, as he was the lieutenant who, together with Wright, had been convicted of landing spies and brigands in his territories, for which they were afterwards reported to have been murdered by his (the emperor's) orders. The conspiracy of Georges, Moreau and Pichegru, in which Captains Wright and Wallis were supposed to have been mixed up, has been so often described, and so ably discussed, that there

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