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In the course Of the following winter
In Corsica, he took part for the first time
in a military campaign as commander
OF the artillery in an expedition designed
to carry the revolution into the neighbOr-
ing island of Sardinia. In the long period
OF preparation he was at Bonifacio, one
Of the most weirdly picturesque ports in
all the Path of Napoleon" and he
lodged opposite the old house in which
Charles V stayed more than two CEN
turies before. The expedition resulted
in a fissco, and the Bonapartists, accus-
ing Paoli of desiring the failure of the
campaign the breach between the young
Corsican and the old grew wider stil
A Frenchman mt Last.
While both were fervent Corsicans, one
had received his political training in
England and the other in France. As the
revolution developed, Paoli was steadily
driven back upon the English modera-
ton which he had acquired in his exile
among a people who always believe in
going ahead slowly. In the veins OF the
younger man the warm blood OF Italy
coursed untamed. He was still italian
and something more intense than that.
a Corsican, and not yet the calculating
man of the great world.
When early in 119S war was declared
between France and England. Corsicans
had to choose between the French who
held the forts and the British whose
warships lay at the harbor mouths ready
to seize the island. Turning with shud-
der from France under the Terror, Paolt,
naturally looked to his English friends
and welcomed an English protectorate.
Napoleon, on the other hand, chose
broad path and became a Frenchman at
last.
After various adventures he Joined the
representatives OF the French reVolu-
tionary government and engaged In
footless expedition organized to capture
Ajaccio from the Paolists. DespairinS
of the success of this movement he sent
a courier to warn his mother. Prepare
yourself" he wrote; this country is not
for u.s.
Letizia was lying dressed on couch
in the Bonaparte house one evening when
the courier and a band Of faithful FOL
lowers burst in upon her. As she sprang
up she feared she was in the hands OF
the Paolists, but by the light Of their
pine toyches she recognized the rough
hut friendly mountaineers who had como
to save her. BE quick, Signora Letizia!"
cried the leader ''Paoli's people are hard
on our heels. There Is not a moment 70
lose. We will save you or die with you"
With the Able Fesch, her son Louis
and her daughters Elisa and Pauline she
fed along the shore, having been obliged
to leave behind two Of her children. Car
oline and Jerome, who were too young
to endure the hardships Of such jour
ney. Before morning the Paolists had
broken into the homestead in the Rue
St Charles and by smashing and burn
tn1 thav Ia "A u-asfe IN the interior Of the
house.
Plainly the fortunes Of the Bonapartss
were at an end in the island. They
had been driven from their home and
denounced by formal resolution: 1T Is
beneath the dignity Of the Corsican peo-
ple to trouble themselves about the FAM
lilies Of Arena and Bonaparte; they aban-
don them to their own private remorse
and to public opinion, which has already