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posed to believe every charge of unkindness and 

 oppression that has been preferred against his 

 keepers? However different the state of the 

 establishment might have been when inhabited 

 by Napoleon, all the associations of a visitor, 

 with his situation during the time, take their 

 colour from what is seen ; and the rooms should 

 have been preserved in the condition in which 

 they were left, or the whole should have been 

 razed to the ground." 



