"Sin confessed is half forgiven." But Napoleon only stamped his foot.

"Why should I confess ?" he cried.
"What should I confess?
I should lie if I did so.

I will not lie! I tell you I did not take any of my uncle's fruit!" "Confess," urged Joseph.
"'Fess," lisped baby Lucien.
"Confess, dear Napoleon," sister Pauline begged.
Only Eliza remained quiet.
"Napoleon," said the Canon Lucien, who, as head of the Bonaparte family, and who, especially because he was its main support, was given leadership in all home affairs, "we waste time with you; for you are but an obstinate boy.

At first I felt sorry for you, and would have excused you, but now I can do so no longer.

See, now; I give you five minutes by my watch in which to confess your wrong-doing.