I feel simply that it is necessary to show my companions that I can procure them as well as they, if I wish to do so.
"Your respectful and affectionate son, "BONAPARTE." It took some time to write this letter; for, with Napoleon, letter-writing was always a detested task.
When he had written and directed it, he felt better.

We always do feel relieved, you know, if we speak out or write down our feelings.

Then he read a chapter in Plutarch about Alexander the Great.

This set him to thinking and planning how he would win a battle if he should ever become a leader and commander.

He had a notion that he knew just what he would do; and, to prove that his plan was good, he threw himself on the garden walk, and gathering a lot of pebbles, he began to set them in array, as if they were soldiers, and to make all the moves and marches and counter-marches of a furious battle.