TIME WORKS WONDERS.
If Napoleon 1. could have been told when be was organizing the expedition at Boulogne, or when retreating from Waterloo, or when eating out his heart at St. Helena, that his grand nephew, the last hope of his race. Would die in an English quarrel, w>uid be wraooel rnunl with the Union Jack, he carried by English officers to an English ship, to he conveyel to his burial place on English soil, he would have thought it impossible. Happily, however, the enmities of nations are immortal, and great warriors cannot leave all their hates behind them. This vis insdicntrlx natures hj eals the sores of nations as well an of individuals, and healthy communities outgrow the pain of wpunls and even the memory of scars. For more than forty years Fiance nursed the passion of avenging Waterloo, and now there is not a singfe party in France who- would raise that cry. The armies of the two countries have fought side by side, and quite recently at a peaceful tournament of commerce, during the Paris Exhibition, the heir apparent to the British throne was the most popular of all the guests of France,
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Dunstan Times, Issue 918, 21 November 1879, Page 3
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196TIME WORKS WONDERS. Dunstan Times, Issue 918, 21 November 1879, Page 3
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