Excerpt from Browning's Heroines How did it happen, my poor boy You wanted to be Bonaparte, And have the Tuileries for toy, And could not, so it broke your heart. How compassionately he would give that forth! A screen of glass, you're thankful for; Be quiet, and unclench your fist Poor men God made, and all for this! The phrases (how alert we were for the phrase in those days) would fall grave and vibrant from the voice with its subtle foreign colouring: you could always infuriate H. H. By telling him he had a foreign accent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.