But why will you not ask for pardon ?" "Because pardon is for the guilty, Pauline," Napoleon replied; "and I am not guilty." "And will you never ask it ?" "Never," her brother said firmly.
"But, O Napoleon!" cried the little girl, "what if they should always give you just bread and water and cheese ?" "And if they should, I would not give in," Napoleon answered.

"What can I do?
I am not master here." Pauline gave a great sigh of sympathy.

The thought of never having anything to eat but bread and water and a little cheese was too much for her courage.
"I could confess anything, rather," she said.

"I would ask pardon three times a day." "And I would not," said Napoleon.

"But then, I am a man." Just then the three children who were to accompany their father to Milelli, passed through the pantry, for they had been to bid Nurse Saveria good-by.