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and now my only regret is that I can no longer be useful to you.\" Napoleon, in a voice almost inarticulate with emotion, said,

\"Duroc, there is another life. There you will await me.\"

\"Yes, sire,\" the marshal faintly replied, \"but that will be thirty years hence. You will then have triumphed over your enemies, and realized the hopes of our country. I have lived an honest man. I have nothing to reproach myself with. I have a daughter,


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and now my only regret is that I can no longer be useful to you.\" Napoleon, in a voice almost inarticulate with emotion, said,

\"Duroc, there is another life. There you will await me.\"

\"Yes, sire,\" the marshal faintly replied, \"but that will be thirty years hence. You will then have triumphed over your enemies, and realized the hopes of our country. I have lived an honest man. I have nothing to reproach myself with. I have a daughter,


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