"I am to stay with you, brother," she said.

"Will you be good to me ?" Napoleon slipped his arm about his little sister's neck; but just then his father came from the dining-room, and the boy drew up again, haughty and hard.
"Well, Napoleon," said his father, stopping an instant before the boy, "I hope you are sorry and subdued.

Will you now ask your Uncle Lucien's pardon ?" [Illustration: _"What! Stubborn still ?"_] Napoleon looked his father full in the face.

"I did not take that fruit, papa," he said.
"What! stubborn still ?" his father cried.

"See, then; it shall not be said in my home that an obstinate little fellow like you can rule the house.