"My faith!" said Annabel, "this in a house favorable to the Empire!"
"A very natural question," said Jerome. "I have often asked myself the same thing."
"The king of France," I argued, "and all the Bourbons were turned out. Why shouldn't the Bonapartes be?"
"Why shouldn't they, indeed!" responded Jerome. "My mother insists they will be. But I wouldn't be the man who undertakes to turn out the emperor."
"What is he like?"
"Impossible to describe him."
"Is he no larger than you?"
Annabel gurgled aloud.
"He is not as large."
"Yet he is a great soldier?"