Joseph caught the last word.
"A man, are you!" he cried.

"Then, why not be a man, and not a baby ?" "Bah, rascal! and who is the greater baby ?" his brother responded.

"It is he who cries the loudest when things go wrong; and I never cry." Joseph said nothing further except, "Good-by, obstinate one!" "Good-by," lisped baby Lucien.
But Eliza said nothing.

She did not even glance at Napoleon as she passed him; and he simply looked at her, without a word of accusation or farewell.
The three days passed quietly, though hungrily, for Napoleon.

Uncle Lucien said nothing to influence the boy, though he looked sadly, and sometimes wistfully, at him; and Pauline tried to sweeten the bread and water and cheese as much as possible by her sympathy and companionship.
Of this last, however, Napoleon did not wish much.