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CHAPTER II.
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THE ESTIMATE OF A WORSHIPPER		70
I.	Méneval	70
II.	A hero worshipper	72
III.	Napoleon appears	73
IV.	Méneval starts work	75
V.	First dictation	77
VI.	A portrait of Napoleon	79
VII.	Napoleon at table	82
VIII.	Life at Malmaison	83
IX.	Josephine's occupations	85
X.	Méneval charmed	87
XI.	The shadow of a crime	88
XII.	Napoleon's power of work	89
XIII.	Napoleon in his study	92
XIV.	Napoleon as a man of letters	93
XV.	Napoleon's orthography	95
XVI.	Lapses	97
XVII.	Was Napoleon superstitious?	98
XVIII.	Curious characteristics	100
XIX.	Daily habits	102
XX.	Napoleon in the field	104
XXI.	The descent begun	107
XXII.	Napoleon's forlorn young heir	109
XXIII.	A doomed man	111
CHAPTER III.
THE ESTIMATE OF AN OFFICIAL		113
I.	The Pasquier dynasty	113
II.	The old régime	114
III.	Paris before the storm	117
IV.	The taking of the Bastille	119
V.	The Girondists	120
VI.	The advance of the storm	121
VII.	A narrow escape	123
VIII.	A terrible plan	125