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Knowing that Sir Thomas Reade was quite
incapable of explaining to him in either French or
Italian the purport of any ex-
ceeding a few words, I asked him, “ In case Sir
Thomas Reade should not find himself capable of
explaining perfectly every particular, and should
commit what he had to say to paper, if he would
read it, or allow it to be read to him ?
Knowing that Sir Thomas Reade was quite
incapable of explaining to him in either French or
Italian the purport of any ex-
ceeding a few words, I asked him, “ In case Sir
Thomas Reade should not find himself capable of
explaining perfectly every particular, and should
commit what he had to say to paper, if he would
read it, or allow it to be read to him ?
Napoleon - 1822 - Memoirs
