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The Coast Of France
I dare say that I had already read my uncle's letter a hundred times, and I am sure that I knew it by heart. None the less I took it out of…
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The Salt-Marsh
When a man has reached his mature age he can rest at that point of vantage, and cast his eyes back at the long road along which he has trav…
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The Ruined Cottage
It was delightful to see the glow and twinkle of the fire and to escape from the wet wind and the numbing cold, but my curiosity had alread…
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Men Of The Night
I had little time given me to realise the extraordinary and humiliating position in which I found myself, for I was lifted up by my ankles,…
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The Law
The cupboard for it was little more into which I had been hurried was low and narrow, and I felt in the darkness that it was heaped with pe…
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The Secret Passage
The fire had already smouldered down, and my companion blew out the lamp, so that we had not taken ten paces before we had lost sight of th…
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Uncle Bernac - The Owner Of Grosbois - (1)
My host was as good as his word, for, when a noise in my room awoke me in the morning, it was to find him standing by the side of my bed, s…
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Uncle Bernac - The Owner Of Grosbois - (2)
'Perhaps we had been rooted here too long,' I answered. 'Perhaps it is for our own good that we are driven out to carve our own fortunes, a…
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The Camp Of Boulogne
My uncle was still standing at the castle gateway, the very picture of a usurper, with our own old coat-of-arms of the bend argent and the…
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The Ante-Room
The camp of Boulogne contained at that time one hundred and fifty thousand infantry, with fifty thousand cavalry, so that its population wa…
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The Secretary
Emperor, generals, and officials all streamed away to the review, leaving me with a gentle-looking, large-eyed man in a black suit with ver…
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Uncle Bernac - The Man Of Action - (1)
De Meneval's tent had been pitched in such a way that he could overlook the Royal headquarters, but whether it was that we were too absorbe…
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Uncle Bernac - The Man Of Action - (2)
'What is this?' he asked, holding up a little lady in hunting costume of amaranth and gold with a toque and plume of white feathers. 'That…
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The Man Of Dreams
When I had escorted my cousin Sibylle from the presence of the Emperor, I was surprised to find the same young hussar officer waiting outsi…
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Josephine
At this unexpected announcement Talleyrand and Berthier looked at each other in silence, and for once the trained features of the great dip…
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Uncle Bernac - The Reception Of The Empress - (1)
Pont de Briques is but a small village, and this sudden arrival of the Court, which was to remain for some weeks, had crammed it with visit…
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Uncle Bernac - The Reception Of The Empress - (2)
But in spite of the evident hatred of her husband's family, the Empress appeared to be entirely unconcerned and at her ease as she strolled…
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Uncle Bernac - The Library Of Grosbois - (1)
And now, my friends, I am coming to the end of those singular adventures which I encountered upon my arrival in France, adventures which mi…
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Uncle Bernac - The Library Of Grosbois - (2)
'He is killing him! He is killing him!' cried a voice, and a woman servant rushed madly out into the passage. 'Help, help; he is killing Mo…