has suffered to a degree which has somewhat impaired my health. But fortitude triumphs over sorrow, and I begin to be a little better.\"
Again, on the 15th, the Empress wrote to Hortense, who was still in Amsterdam:
\"I have been extremely anxious on account of your health, my dear Hortense. I know that you have experienced several attacks of fever, and I have need to be tranquilized.
\"Your letter of the 10th has just reached me,
has suffered to a degree which has somewhat impaired my health. But fortitude triumphs over sorrow, and I begin to be a little better.\"
Again, on the 15th, the Empress wrote to Hortense, who was still in Amsterdam:
\"I have been extremely anxious on account of your health, my dear Hortense. I know that you have experienced several attacks of fever, and I have need to be tranquilized.
\"Your letter of the 10th has just reached me,
