Hortense



\"'We ought, then, to love this Emperor, ought we?'

\"'Yes, certainly,' was the reply; 'for you owe him your gratitude.'

\"The next time the Emperor Alexander called upon Hortense, little Louis Napoleon, who was naturally very retiring and reticent, took a ring which his uncle Eugene had given him, and, stealing timidly over to Alexander, slipped the ring into his hand, and, half frightened, ran away with all speed. Hortense called the child to her,


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\"'We ought, then, to love this Emperor, ought we?'

\"'Yes, certainly,' was the reply; 'for you owe him your gratitude.'

\"The next time the Emperor Alexander called upon Hortense, little Louis Napoleon, who was naturally very retiring and reticent, took a ring which his uncle Eugene had given him, and, stealing timidly over to Alexander, slipped the ring into his hand, and, half frightened, ran away with all speed. Hortense called the child to her,


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