<p>The following narrative, written over eighty years ago, and now at last given to the world in 1906, is remarkable in many respects.<br><br>It is remarkable for its subject, for its style, and for its literary history.<br><br>The subject?a deathbed scene?might seem at first sight to be a trite and common one. The mise-en-scène?the Field of Waterloo?alone however redeems it from such a charge; and the principal actors play their part in no commo...