Scene—A pavilion in the garden which serves as a classroom for the young princes. At left an open door through which the garden can be seen, brilliant with sunlight. At right a glass door which leads into the other rooms. It is a summer afternoon. When the curtain rises Dr. Agi is lecturing to Georg and Arsen at a table. The boys are listening attentively.
Agi— . . . After a series of humiliations and protracted
physical sufferings he died on the island of
St. Helena, on the fifth day of May, 1821, at the
age of fifty-two. He was buried on a promontory
of the island on which, in his lifetime, he had loved
to sit and contemplate the sea. His faithful attendants
wished to inscribe the word "Napoleon" on
his grave-stone. . . . But his tormentor, Hudson
Lowe, persecuting him even beyond the grave, forbade
it. The contemptible Hudson Lowe permitted
them to inscribe only the words, "Le General
Buonaparte." Later the body was conveyed to
France in solemn state; and Paris honored the
martyred emperor with magnificent funeral services.
There, to this day, in the Dom des Invalides,
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