From the Book - First edition.
"She is a most extraordinary girl"
"I would rather be the wife of Jerome Bonaparte for an hour"
"Have confidence in your husband"
"Madame Bonaparte is ambitious"
"I intend to be governed by my own rules"
"I shall resume the name of my own family"
"The purposes of life are all fulfilled"
"Your ideas soar'd too high"
"For this life there is nothing but disappointment"
"That was my American wife"
"He had neither my pride, my ambition, nor my love of good company"
"Disgusted with the past, despairing of a future"
"I will not be dupe enough to ever try justice in France"
"Once I had everything but money; now I have nothing but money"
Conclusion: "I have lived alone and I will die alone"
Epilogue: The American Bonapartes.
