If colonial adventures must be sought, let them be sought in the New World, where Spain and the United States could offer only a feeble resistance, rather than in Europe and Asia, where unending war must be the result of an aggressive policy.
At once the brothers sought an interview with Napoleon.

He chanced to be in his bath, a warm bath perfumed with scents, where he believed that tired nature most readily found recovery.

He ordered them to be admitted, and an interesting family discussion was the result.

On his mentioning the proposed sale, Lucien at once retorted that the Legislature would never consent to this sacrifice.

He there touched the wrong chord in Napoleon's nature: had he appealed to the memories of _le grand monarque_ and of Montcalm, possibly he might have bent that iron will; but the mention of the consent of the French deputies roused the spleen of the autocrat, who, from amidst the scented water, mockingly bade his brother go into mourning for the affair, which he, and he alone, intended to carry out.