Note 45 — Chapter XII
Reading edition
I give the quotation with a becoming hesitation, because, though Mr. H. Rose says “it is difficult to see on what evidence this story rests,” Professor Sloane says the words are “reported by Napoleon himself.”
Reading edition
I give the quotation with a becoming hesitation, because, though Mr. H. Rose says “it is difficult to see on what evidence this story rests,” Professor Sloane says the words are “reported by Napoleon himself.”