mentor.
She forthwith erected a barrier between herself and Josephine—a barrier which remained to the end.
To marry this glowing creature to a poseur, who at one time imagined that he was a second Bonaparte, seemed to be asking for trouble, to use a popular phrase. But at least it can be said for Pauline that although she treated her matrimonial obligations with considerable lightness, she managed successfully to retain the devotion and admiration of her husband; although, when he eventually could hardly ignore the scandals of Government House, where he ruled as the Emperor's representative in the West Indies, he was by that time so broken in health that the domestic sorrow mattered little, and it is only fair to add that in his last illness his wife showered on him the utmost attention and was genuinely distressed at his death,
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