Hortense

perhaps, the attachment of the colonel for him, and the regard with which he had treated him, which were the causes of the failure of my enterprise. I closed in beseeching him that all the rigor of the law might fall upon me, saying that I was the most guilty, and the only one to be feared.

\"The general came to see me, and was very affectionate. He said, upon entering, 'Prince, when I was your prisoner, I could find


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perhaps, the attachment of the colonel for him, and the regard with which he had treated him, which were the causes of the failure of my enterprise. I closed in beseeching him that all the rigor of the law might fall upon me, saying that I was the most guilty, and the only one to be feared.

\"The general came to see me, and was very affectionate. He said, upon entering, 'Prince, when I was your prisoner, I could find


814 of 926