The Home And Court Life of the Emperor Napoleon And His Family : With Pictures of the Most Distinguished Persons of the Time
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I told him that it was a man belonging to the Section, who had come to set him down in the lists of the National Guard, but that on being informed of his illness he had desisted. I was induced to say so, because I heard no further altercation. My father looked steadfastly at me. " Is that quite true ?" he asked. Knowing that a true account of this scene would be liable to cause a fatal crisis, I answered in the affirmative, and my mother's maid, who heard the whole, came in and supported me. My... father did not believe it. I heard him utter the words, " Wretches ! my poor country !" At length he asked for my mother. I went to fetch her, but in what a state did I find her ! For some years past my mother had been subject to nervous paroxysms, of a character the more alarming inasmuch as she never lost her consciousness, but continued in a dreadfully convulsed state for one or two hours. At such times she disliked to have anybody about her. On reaching the drawing-room I found her in tears, and in one of the most violent spasms.
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