ONE:��Ah!�� cried he. ��I have just met the Emperor as I came to you. I had only time to rush under a portico and am dreadfully afraid he recognized me.�� TWO:The Emperor desired her to paint the portrait of the Empress, whom she represented standing in full court dress, with a crown of diamonds. Lisette used to declare that she was like a woman out of the Gospel, and that she was the only woman she knew whom no calumny ever attacked. One day she brought her two youngest sons to the sitting, the Grand Dukes Nicolas and Michael, then children. Of the Grand Duke Nicolas, afterwards Emperor, Mme. Le Brun declared that she had never seen a more beautiful child, and that she could paint from memory his face, which had all the characteristic beauty of Greece.THREE:��You wouldn��t believe,�� she said to Lisette, who came to see her at eight o��clock one evening, and found her alone, ��that I have had twenty people to [153] dinner to-day? They all went away directly after the coffee.����You are wrong, citoyenne, to doubt the justice of the tribunal, we have not created it to assassinate in the name of the law, but to avenge the republic and proclaim innocence.��