7/29 The ladies of our party chatted freely with them. They all had interesting anecdotes to relate of their chief. They said he seldom slept over four hours, was an abstemious eater, and rarely changed a servant, as he hated a strange face about him. He was very fond of a game of chess, and snuffed continuously; talked but little, was a light sleeper,--the stirring of a mouse would awaken him,--and always on the watch-tower. A sentinel asleep at his post would sometimes waken to find Napoleon on duty in his place. |