CHAPTER XXVIII.

1800. Great and common men--Portrait of Bonaparte--The varied expression of his countenance--His convulsive shrug--Presentiment of his corpulency--Partiality for bathing--His temperance--His alleged capability of dispensing with sleep--Good and bad news--Shaving, and reading the journals--Morning business--Breakfast--Coffee and snuff --Bonaparte's idea of his own situation--His ill opinion of mankind --His dislike of a 'tête-à-tête'--His hatred of the Revolutionists --Ladies in white--Anecdo…