Chap.

1        1|      which with its scanty First Empire decorations suggested the
2        3|       its massive mahogany First Empire furniture, its hangings
3        3|        making his peace with the empire on his entrance into the
4        5|        in the style of the First Empire. Then he stretched himself
5        7|          days of the later Roman Empire, rendered society an impossibility;
6       12| austerity with its massive First Empire mahogany furniture, its
7       14|      took up the cudgels for the empire. She had been the mistress
8       14|        the victory. Preserve the empire to us!”~They all repeated