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22 morning visitors; and after a drive of a couple of hours in the park, the empress and her suite retired to dress for dinner, to whieh never less than from twelve to fifteen strangers sat down. The evening passed in amusement, conversation, and musie, and was always very gay, owing to the number of visitors from Paris. At eleven, tea, ices, and sweetmeats were served; and at midnight, the empress retired. The apartments in which these re-unions took place were elegant and spaeious, the furniture being eovered with needlework on a ground of white silk, wrought by the empress and her ladies; but the residence altogether was small, an ineonvenience still further increased through Josephine’s veneration of every thing that had been Napoleon’s. The apartment which he had oceupied remained exactly as he had left it; she would not suffer even a chair to be moved, and indeed very rarely permitted any one to enter, keeping the key herself, and dusting the articles with her own hands. On the table was a volume of history, with the page doubled down where he had finished reading; beside it lay a pen with the ink dried on the point, and a map of the world, on whieh he was aecustomed to point out his plans to thoso in his confidence, and which still shewed on its surface many marks of his impatience;—these, Josephine would not allow to be touched on any account. By the wall stood Napoleon’s campbed, without eurtains; and above continued to hang such of his arms as he had placed there. On different pieces of furniture were flung various portions of apparel, just as he had used them last; for, among his other extraordinary ways, he had a practice, on retiring to rest, of flinging rather than taking off his elothes, easting down a coat here, a vest there, usually pitching his wateh into the bed, and his hat and shoes into the farthest corner of the apartment.

The close of Josephine’s life is thus described by Dr. Memes: —“A variety of grievances preyed upon Josephine’s spirits, but without producing any appearanee of disease till the 4th of May, when she dined at St. Leu with Hortense, Eugene, and the emperor of Russia. On returning to Malmaison, she felt a general uneasiness, which, however, yielded to some