80 LEAVES FROM THE BOOK OF NATURE. 



allowed to defy their master's vengeance but they could 

 not disobey the great law of nature. A few beggars re- 

 turned, long years after, to report that the whole tribe 

 had perished, a whole nation had disappeared from the 

 globe! And the same law called to Napoleon, when he 

 was at the height of his power, sternly uttering the Scrip- 

 ture words : Hitherto shalt thou come but no further ! 



