
CHAPTER I
"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family
estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you
don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to
defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that
Antichrist--I really believe he is Antichrist--I will have
nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my
friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself!
But...