Athens until he should be no more.

II.--Napoleon's Sangaree

Napoleon Buonaparte sat in his garden at St. Helena, in the shadow of a
fig-tree. Before him stood a little table, and upon the table stood a glass
of sangaree. The day was hot and drowsy; the sea boomed monotonously on the
rocks; the broad fig-leaves stirred not; great flies buzzed heavily in the
sultry air. Napoleon wore a loose linen coat and a broad brimmed planter's
hat, and looked as red as the sangaree, but nowise as comfortable.

"To think," he said aloud, "that I should end my life here, with nothing to
sweeten my destiny but this lump of sugar!"

And he dropped it into the sangaree, and little ripples and beads broke out
on the surface of the liquid.

"Thou should'st have followed me," said a voice.

"Me," said another.

And a steam from the sangaree rose high over Napoleon's head, and from it
shaped themselves two beautiful female figures. One was fair and very
youthful, with a Phrygian cap on her head, and eager eyes beneath it, and a
slender spear in her hand. The other was somewhat older, and graver, and
darker, with serious eyes; and she carried a sword, and wore a helmet, from
underneath which her rich brown tresses escaped over her vesture of light
steel armour.

"I am Liberty," said the first.

"I am Loyalty," said the second.

And Napoleon laid his hand in that of the first spirit, and instantly saw
himself as he had been in the days of his youthful victories, only beset
with a multitude of people who were offering him a crown, and cheering
loudly. But he thrust it aside, and they cheered ten times more, and fell
into each other's arms, and wept and kissed each other. And troops of young
maidens robed in white danced before him, strewing his way with flowers.
And the debts of the debtor were paid, and the prisoners were released from
captivity. And the forty Academicians came bringing Napoleon the prize of
virtue. And the Abbe Sieyes stood up, and offered Napoleon his choice of
seventeen constitutions; and Napoleon chose the worst. And he came to sit
with five hundred other men, mostly advocates. And when he said "Yea," they
said "Nay"; and when he said "white," they said "black." And they suffered
him to do neither good nor evil, and when he went to war they commanded his
army for him, until he was smitten with a great slaughter. And the enemy
entered the country, and bread was scarce and wine dear; and the people
cursed