Hortense

been as fortunate as ever was man upon the face of this earth. But in this hour, when a storm is gathering over my head, I have not in this wide world any one but you upon whom I can repose.\"

Josephine goes to Navarre.

Soon after this, as the seat of war approached nearer to Paris, Josephine found it necessary to retire to Navarre. She wrote to Hortense, on the 28th of March: \"To-morrow I shall leave for Navarre. I have but sixteen men for a guard,


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been as fortunate as ever was man upon the face of this earth. But in this hour, when a storm is gathering over my head, I have not in this wide world any one but you upon whom I can repose.\"

Josephine goes to Navarre.

Soon after this, as the seat of war approached nearer to Paris, Josephine found it necessary to retire to Navarre. She wrote to Hortense, on the 28th of March: \"To-morrow I shall leave for Navarre. I have but sixteen men for a guard,


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