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There was something else that he feared, too — something that further prevented him from visiting the empress. The brain-storms no longer attacked him,...

16. So much then for the brothers. Let us return to the emperor. For some time he treated Zoe with marked consideration, but that...

14. It has often been a cause of surprise to me, when I have sat with him at banquets, to observe how a man,...

If he did no harm to a soul, yet in his dealings with the people he assumed a fierce expression which terrified one and...

11. Not one of the emperors in my time — and I say this with experience of many in my life, for most of...

9. Clearly it was not a noble beginning for a man promoted to supreme power, as I have shown. Nevertheless, for a short period...

Villiers de L`isle Adam (1838-1889)Count Villiers de l`Isle Adam, bom in Brittany in 1838, led a strange life. “Born without average will-power,” says Huneker,...

“And very capricious—”“Lacking in judgment—”And a whimsical creature. I am everything you like; lecture me,I deserve it. Come; have you nothing to say? I...

“Mother, let us define the world.”“People.”“And who is Mr. People? I do not know him; I am not obliged to be unhappy for the...

Finally, she decided not to let herself be seen. Every evening for a week she shut herself in her room, trembling with impatience, trying...