\" she said. \"The Emperor has always treated me as his child, and I will try, in return, to be his devoted and grateful daughter.\" In conversation with Hortense, Napoleon remarked: \"Give myself up to Austria! Never. She has seized upon my wife and my son. Give myself up to Russia! That would be to a single man. But to give myself up to England, that would be to throw myself upon a people.\" His friends assured him that,
\" she said. \"The Emperor has always treated me as his child, and I will try, in return, to be his devoted and grateful daughter.\" In conversation with Hortense, Napoleon remarked: \"Give myself up to Austria! Never. She has seized upon my wife and my son. Give myself up to Russia! That would be to a single man. But to give myself up to England, that would be to throw myself upon a people.\" His friends assured him that,
