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``` Have `` _ Honneur et patrie _ '' engraved on it , ' he said ; ` the history of our last two campaigns is summed up in those three words . ' `` Then those who were going out with him came up , and I spent the rest of the morning with them . The Emperor walked to and fro along the beach ; there was not a sign of agitation about him , though he frowned from time to time . At noon , it was considered hopeless for him to attempt to escape by sea . The English had found out that he was at Rochefort ; he must either give himself up to them , or cross the breadth of France again . We were wretchedly anxious ; the minutes seemed like hours ! On the one hand there were the Bourbons , who would have shot Napoleon if he had fallen into their clutches ; and on the other , the English , a dishonored race : they covered themselves with shame by flinging a foe who asked for hospitality away on a desert rock , that is a stain which they will never wash away .