Napoleon Symphony: a Novel in Four Movements
“N screamed, “is a traitor and a damned traitor. I will have the shooting of the traitor Yorck with my own hands.” He stamped about the playroom for a time, crying traitor traitor, and his little son, the King of Rome, laughed. “You do well to laugh, my angel child,” N said, eyes softening, “laugh indeed in your Eden of youthful innocence where there are no traitors. But the traitors will come, they come to us all, hissing in the green leaves, then striking, striking.” He fisted the huge papier-...mâché Europe he had had made and set up in the playroom and a group of lead cavalrymen fell over. Encouraged, the King of Rome fisted with both little fists, and grenadiers and infantrymen fell from the Tagus to the Urals.
The Empress, Marie-Louise, sat placidly in an armchair eating from a box of creamy sweetmeats that had come recently all the way from Vienna. She smiled with her cat-eyes at the Emperor her husband and said: “Sweetheart, rest, you must rest, to bed and I will rest with you, and do not cry out all the time about traitors.MoreLess
The Empress, Marie-Louise, sat placidly in an armchair eating from a box of creamy sweetmeats that had come recently all the way from Vienna. She smiled with her cat-eyes at the Emperor her husband and said: “Sweetheart, rest, you must rest, to bed and I will rest with you, and do not cry out all the time about traitors.MoreLess
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