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a childish obstinacy ! Play the fool no longer, 

 I beg of you, but submit to the remedies with 

 cheerfulness.' This reproach softened the 

 patient's obstinacy ; he became submissive to 

 the regimen prescribed, and recovered." 



Some six weeks elapsed before Mr. Warden 

 again visited Longwood. Las Cases met him, 

 and said that his master had expressed surprise 

 at his absence. " We have not seen you since 

 your resuscitation of General Gourgon. I wish 

 very much to consult you about the health of 

 my son." This led Mr. Warden to obtain a 

 passport, and his interviews and conversations 

 with Napoleon were frequent. On one occasion, 

 having been invited to breakfast, he says : 



" On entering the room I observed the back 

 of a sofa turned towards me, and on advancing 

 I saw Napoleon lying at full length on it. The 

 moment his eye met mine he exclaimed in 

 English, in a tone of good-humoured vivacity, 

 1 Ah, Warden, how do you do ? ' He stretched 

 out his hand, saying, ' I have got a fever/ I 

 immediately applied my hand to the wrist, and 

 observing both from the regularity of the pulsa- 

 tion and the jocular expression of his counten- 

 ance that he was exercising a little of his 



