The Clash of Steel
by Carl Reutti Mason
Publisher: The Abbey Press 1901
ISBN/ASIN: 1171644809
Number of pages: 218
Description:
Like the evening star, slowly mounting its zenith at the evening twilight, rose Napoleon's fortune, for awhile it set, sparkled and flashed, then slowly it began to pale behind the ominous clouds which long had been gathering on the horizon. The star of his greatness began its being when he married the widow of M. Beauharnais and turned back the horoscope of time so as to escape the laughter of his friends.
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