However, he would not cry: he was dull, but not sulky.

At length, on the fourth day of his punishment a little friend of Marianne Bonaparte returned from the country, and on hearing of Napoleon's disgrace she confessed that she and Marianne had eaten the fruit.

It was now Marianne's turn to be punished.

When Napoleon was asked why he had not accused his sister, he replied that though he suspected that she was guilty, yet out of consideration to her little friend, who had no share in the falsehood, he had said nothing.

He was then only seven years of age" (vol.i.p.