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... New World in America; and facts of a parallel nature are attested to us in the islands of the South Seas. And, as phenomena of this sort were unive... ...our du Bordage, in Guernsey, the square devoted by the city authorities of that island to this kind of punishment. The last case of death for Witchc... ...ing the thumb or wrist the motion is felt throughout the whole hand. – From the Cape Breton Advocate. OF MEDICAL HERBS. The old writers on... ...he thumb or wrist the motion is felt throughout the whole hand. – From the Cape Breton Advocate. OF MEDICAL HERBS. The old writers on Astr...

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... pleasure, and fill the half-empty companies of his own bri- gade with his Breton conscripts. The word “conscript” which later became so celebrated, h... ...faces of the recruits, and suddenly broke silence. The slow advance of the Bretons had put a distance of three or four hundred feet between themselves... ...eat-bread,—a na- tional delicacy , the dismal delights of which none but a Breton 14 The Chouans can understand,—and began to eat with stolid indiffe... ... pastures, to the savages of America, or the aboriginal inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope. Deceived by his behavior, the commandant himself was abo... ...all fought as I did, not one of those Blues would have es- 36 The Chouans caped, and the coach could have got here safely.” “They’d never have though... ... water from the two lakes which it connected. The house really stood on an island that was well-nigh impregnable,—an invaluable retreat for a chief- t... ...isoner by the petticoat, as a butcher catches a calf that is trying to es- cape him. “Let me see her, and I’ll set a price.” The unfortunate creature ...

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...nd was a commerce-destroyin’ man-o’-war, an’ so he declared war on Sable Island because it was Bridish, an’ the shoals run aout too far. They sewed ... ...ing the windows.) “But Slatin Beeman he owns ‘baout every railroad on Long Island, they say , an’ they say he’ s bought ‘baout ha’af Noo Hampshire an’... ... we know . His natural tongue’ s kinder curious. Comes from the innards of Cape Breton, he does, where the farmers speak homemade Scotch. Cape Breton’... ...now . His natural tongue’ s kinder curious. Comes from the innards of Cape Breton, he does, where the farmers speak homemade Scotch. Cape Breton’ s fu... ... said Long Jack, impatiently . “We’re not drawin’ twenty-five fut off Fire Island in a fog. There’ s no trick to ut.” “Don’t be jealous, Galway .” The... ...to the banquit,” said Long Jack, squelching the water from his boots as he capered like an elephant and stuck an oil-skinned arm into Harvey’ s face. ... ...nd, an’ Gibbons o’ that town he was her skipper; they fund her leakin’ off Cape Cod Light. There was a terr’ble gale on, an’ they was gettin’ the Bett... ...that he would see it. He told them of mall-carrying in the ‘winter up Cape Breton way , of the dog-train that 71 Rudyard Kipling goes to Coudray , an... ...ent and, at last, per- suasion; but there is a difference between one Cape Breton and two Alabama negroes, and the matter was referred to Cheyne by th...

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...ad it to victory. He died shortly after the expedition had started, in the island of Chios, in 1456. The house of Bourges, his native place, testifies... ...rk a certain look of being softened and worn by time, lies the body of the Breton soldier, with, a cruci- fix clasped to his breast and a shroud throw... ... please. Fisher folk of pictuesque type were strolling about, most of them Bretons; several of the men with handsome, simple faces, not at all brutal,... ...rd, were great feudal proprietors; and there was a time dur- ing which the island of Sardinia, to say nothing of places nearer home, such as Arles and... ...ridge that spans the two arms of the Rhone, divided here by a considerable island, and directed my course, like a solitary horseman—on foot, to the lo... ...e passing in and out of the house; they wore gray robes, with a bright red cape. I thought their situation most provincial. I came away, and wandered ...

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...in Christie’s catalogue as follows: “A nude woman, a native of the Society Islands, is lying on the ground beside a brook. Behind is a tropical Landsc... .... I only want to paint what I see.” “I wonder if I could write on a desert island, with the certainty that no eyes but mine would ever see what I had ... ...me- thing that kindled his soul to ecstasy . “Sometimes I’ve thought of an island lost in a boundless sea, where I could live in some hidden valley , ... ...got a contract to paint a tramp that had come in from Madagascar round the Cape of Good Hope, and they spent several days on a plank hanging over the ... ...rickland. It has also to my mind a beauty of its own. Captain Brunot was a Breton, and had been in the French Navy . He left it on his marriage, and s...

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...ot, Miss Una. Sit down, and put on your t’other boot. You’re too old to be caperin’ barefoot on an empty stomach. Stay it with this chicken o’ mine.’ ... ...ed, lavender-coloured riding- habit, with a high hunched collar and a deep cape and a belt fastened with a steel clasp. She wore a yellow velvet cap a... ...rench prisoners at Rye, and so he stays with us. He’s of very old family—a Breton, which is nearly next door to being a true Briton, my father says—an... ... (After open weather you may look for snow!) How far is St Helena from the Capes of T rafalgar? A longish way—a longish way—with ten year more to run... ... laughed. ‘ A seal moves wonderfully in the waters. Do the seal come to my island still?’ Puck shook his head. ‘ All those little islands have been sw...

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..., Introduc. viii. and p. 389 et seq. 5 Rigord. “Chron.” 196, p. 288. Wm. le Breton, “Phil.” xi. 547. See also Birch Hirschfeld, “Die Gralsage”, p. 14... ...ed to speak came to pass so sore mischances in Greater Britain, that all the islands and all the lands fell thereby into much sorrow, al beit thereaf... ... He made seal his letters and sent them throughout all his lands and all the islands, and gave notice to the barons and knights that he would hold cou... ...of me for that I am in aid of King Fisherman, and every week cometh he to an island that is in this sea, and oft times cometh plundering before this c... ...leep so that he might not go to sleep again. He rose and did on a great grey cape and issueth forth of the chamber and cometh to the windows of the ha... ... mercy would it be to destroy the enemies of Our Lord. He doeth off his grey cape and fettleth him in his frock, and taketh one of them that were doin...

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...a humble, submissive voice say, ‘I am the giant Caraculiambro, lord of the island of Malindrania, vanquished in single combat by the never sufficientl... ... him gladly, because any moment an adventure might occur that might win an island in the twinkling of an eye and leave him governor of it. On these an... ...ith his alforjas and bota, and longing to see himself soon governor of the island his master had promised him. Don Quixote decided upon taking the sam... ...not at all mettlesome, he seemed to feel lively and began pawing—for as to capering, begging his pardon, he knew not what it meant. Don Quixote, then,... ... that when Don Quixote had completed the performance of the somersaults or capers, na- ked from the waist down and clothed from the waist up, and saw ... ...wish the fleas in my bed were that sort!” And so saying he cut a couple of capers in the air with every sign of extreme satisfaction, and then ran to ... ...rpose was to trade at some of the ports of Spain, giving themselves out as Bretons, and if they brought us alive they would be punished as soon as the...

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...lies encompassing it, as blue Neptune (in the language of po- ets) does an island, wooingly. Thither may the wrecks of rehabilitated Loyalty gather; i... ...d: an Atreus’ Palace; for that Louvre window is still nigh, out of which a Capet, whipt of the Furies, fired his signal of the Saint Bartholomew! Dark... ...volution—V olume Two What a progress, since the first salient-point of the Breton Committee! It worked long in secret, not languidly; it has come with... ...y, over in the Mother-Society, ask, being henceforth them- selves ‘neither Bretons nor Angevins but French,’ Why all France has not one Federation, an... ... in their Mirabeau;’ considerate North-blooded Mountaineers of Jura; sharp Bretons, with their Gaelic suddenness; Normans not to be overreached in bar... ...with them? In such extraordinary manner does dead Catholicism somerset and caper, skilfully galvanised. For, does the reader inquire into the subject-... ...the attack, thousands strong, with bran- dished cutlasses and fusils, with caperings, shoutings and vociferation,—which, if the White Volunteer Compan...

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...arked on board the ship Mayflower, and crossed the ocean, to the shores of Cape Cod. There they made a settlement, and called it Plymouth, which, thou... ...persecuted in Massachusetts went to the Isle of Rhodes, since called Rhode Island, and settled there. About this time, also, many settlers had gone to... ...m England, who took possession of the 39 Hawthorne old fortress on Castle Island and of the fortification on Fort Hill. Sometimes it was rumored that... ...appened to hear of a Spanish ship which had been cast away near the Bahama Islands, and which was supposed to contain a great deal of gold and silver.... ... expedition against Louisburg. This was a fortified city, on the island of Cape Breton, near Nova Scotia. Its walls were of immense height and strengt... ...dition against Louisburg. This was a fortified city, on the island of Cape Breton, near Nova Scotia. Its walls were of immense height and strength, an... ...o gaze at this crowd of oddly dressed foreigners. At first they danced and capered around them, full of merriment and mischief. But the despair of the... ...eous to the French; for all Canada, and all Acadia, and the Island of Cape Breton,—in short, all the territories that France and England had been figh...

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...d in the same mood which produced “Almayer’s Folly” and “An Outcast of the Islands,” it is told in the same breath (with what was left of it, that is,... ...e dim-lit cuddy of the schooner into an audience- hall. He talked of inter-island politics with an ironic and melancholy shrewdness. He had travelled ... ...; we examined the creeks and the bays; we saw the end of our coast, of our island—a steep cape over a disturbed strait, where drift the shadows of shi... ...he creeks and the bays; we saw the end of our coast, of our island—a steep cape over a disturbed strait, where drift the shadows of shipwrecked praus ... ...n sang a strident tune, and the biniou snored and hummed, while the player capered sol- emnly, lifting high his heavy clogs. The sombre pro- cession d... ... the time of his service; while she had spent a year or so in Paris with a Breton fam- ily; but had been too home-sick to remain longer away from the ... ...or you. What do you think?” She trembled. Coming for her! There was no es- cape, no peace, no hope. She looked round despair- ingly. Suddenly the whol...

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...y atro- cious ghosts. I had heard of him in a place called Dongola, in the Island of Celebes, when the Rajah of that little-known seaport (you can get... ...nd boxes—on mats, on pillows, on quilts, on billets of wood, conversing of Island affairs. Upon my word, I heard the mutter of Almayer’s name faintly ... ...o Celebes cows.” Since Dongola we had on board a pair of the pretty little island cattle in addition to the pony. Tied up on the other side of the for... ...oking mostly into his cup. I in- formed him that my men came upon his pony capering in the fog on the very brink of the eight- foot-deep well in which... ...nd in the everlasting sombre stress of the west- ward winter passage round Cape Horn. For that too is the wrestling of men with the might of their Cre... ... Conrad ing on the quay. He is worth a dozen of your ordi- nary Normans or Bretons, but then, in the whole immense sweep of the Mediterranean shores, ...

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...a humble, submissive voice say, ‘I am the giant Caraculiambro, lord of the island of Malindrania, vanquished in single combat by the never sufficientl... ... him gladly, because any moment an adventure might occur that might win an island in the twinkling of an eye and leave him governor of it. On these an... ...ith his alforjas and bota, and longing to see himself soon governor of the island his master had promised him. Don Quixote decided upon taking the sam... ...not at all mettlesome, he seemed to feel lively and began pawing—for as to capering, begging his pardon, he knew not what it meant. Don Quixote, then,... ... that when Don Quixote had completed the performance of the somersaults or capers, na- ked from the waist down and clothed from the waist up, and saw ... ...wish the fleas in my bed were that sort!” And so saying he cut a couple of capers in the air with every sign of extreme satisfaction, and then ran to ... ...rpose was to trade at some of the ports of Spain, giving themselves out as Bretons, and if they brought us alive they would be punished as soon as the...

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.... This desire, well known to Dumay, will presently serve to illustrate the Breton obsti- nacy of the latter. The entrance to the Chalet is by a little... ... thousand francs from Gobenheim, a former clerk of his master. Dumay was a Breton transplanted by fate into Normandy. Imagine therefore the hatred con... ...obstinacy, and a good many persons explained it by the phrase, “Dumay is a Breton.” As for the cashier, he thought Madame and Made- moiselle Mignon wo... ... companies who control the trade. My last expedition was to the Philippine Islands where I exchanged opium for indigo of the first quality. In fact, I... ..., white leather breeches, top-boots, a striped waistcoat, and a collar and cape of black velvet. He held in his hand a small hunting-whip, and hanging... ...r Jacquin La Roulie, the old French whipper- in, and John Barry, the young islander. The two princes guessed from afar the subject of the altercation,...

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...eriences in a certain stable. God forbid that an unworthy churl should es- cape merited censure by hanging on to the stirrup-leather of the sublime ca... ...rly atrocious ghosts. I had heard of him in a place called Dongola, in the Island of Celebes, when the Ra- jah of that little-known seaport (you can g... ...nd boxes—on mats, on pillows, on quilts, on billets of wood, conversing of Island affairs. Upon my word, I heard the mutter of Almayer’s name faintly ... ...o Celebes cows.” Since Dongola we had on board a pair of the pretty little island cattle in addition to the pony. Tied up on the other side of the for... ...looking mostly into his cup. I informed him that my men came upon his pony capering in the fog on the very brink of the eight-foot- deep well in which... ...nd in the everlasting sombre stress of the west- ward winter passage round Cape Horn. For that, too, is the wrestling of men with the might of their C... ...tern standing on the quay. He is worth a dozen of your ordinary Normans or Bretons, but then, in the whole immense sweep of the Medi- 100 A Personal ...

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...aux, and many most curious anecdotes of his early childhood and youth. T o Breton tradition, his excellent wife Epiphanie Raguenel owes her title of T... ... I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I SELDOM HAD THE INTERIOR of this island presented a more peaceful and prosperous aspect than in the reign of... ...oung step-son of the Prince, Lord Thomas Holland; the rude features of the Breton Knight, Sir Oliver de Clisson, soon to be the bitterest foe of the s... ...roper commencement! Did you take the Prince’s pavilion for one of your own island hostels, where men may freely brawl and use their fists without fear... ...ou will place the Castle in our hands—and leave us to work our will of the island dogs it contains!” “Thanks, Sir Oliver, for such a boon as I would n... ...rit— and they know well enough what chance they have from yon grim-visaged Breton! But as to those succours, I no more expect them than I do to see th... ...n front and rear, their retreat cut off, the French looked in vain for es- cape; some went down beneath the tremendous charge of the English, some cri... ...black-veiled nuns came sweeping into the parlour, whence Agnes hastily es- caped to collect her thoughts during the few instants before she could be s...

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...uccoured and fattened by our rule there: they wave adieu to the conquering Islanders, as to ‘Parsees beneath a cloud.’ The two are seen last on the de... ...you write it down. It is orally incomprehensible to Continentals.’ ‘We are Islanders!’ Colney shrugged in languishment. ‘Oh, you do great things …’ Dr... ...ry requested. His nomination in chief among the tradi- tionally very merry Islanders was hardly borne out by the tale of his enchainment with a drunke... ...e to a people quivering with the double wound to body and soul. She was of Breton blood. Cymric enough was in Nesta to catch any thrill from her and j... .... And now the pair of men were giving and taking cuts to make a rhinoceros caper. ‘Very well; begin that way; try what you can bear,’ said Dartrey. Sk... ...or seeing ghosts and gaping their jaws; all for the quavers instead of the capers.’ He sounded and thrummed his roguish fling-off for the capers. A se... ...perished of the villain stuff. One of his messmates handed me the stick in Cape T own, sworn to deliver it. A good knot to grasp; and it ‘s flexible a...

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...children, flaxen- haired and blue-eyed little sprites, the younger of whom capered round Anne in high glee, though with a little shyness, sometimes lo... ...heliotrope and geranium! Oh, Anne! how could you tear off such a branch of Cape jessamine? that must have been your handiwork, you ruthless one.’ ‘Ann... ...ag- ine his courteous conference with Bertrand du Guesclin, the brave ugly Breton?—Edward lying almost helpless on his couch, broken down with sufferi... ...lf with Charles himself, the two Lindsays, Ormond and Strafford, Derby and Capel, and Sir Ralph Hopton.’ 86 ABBEYCHURCH ‘And Montrose, and t... ...oot. With two or three strides and leaps, however, he reached a little dry island, covered with a tuft of sedges, in the midst of the marsh, and was r... ...ert’s strength of arm. They both slipped down on the opposite sides of the island, into the black mud, and Harriet precipitately retreated to the main... ...you wish to see?’ said Rupert, ‘for if so, I advise you to make haste, the island is sinking fast.’ ‘I am splashed all over, so I do not care. Can I h...

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...e of apples from the trees, and bounded into a paddock where a small rough Breton pony was feeding among the little tawny Norman cows. The ani- mal kn... ...n the midst of the river. To the right of the river was Elysium—a circular island revolving on a wheel which was an absolute orrery , representing in ... ..., twelve signs, and the fixed stars, all illuminated with small lamps. The island itself was covered with verdure, in which, among bowers woven of gay... ...uld not know or heed that little Eustacie de Ribaumont was to make her es- cape that night! The trains of royalty were not sumptuously lodged. France ... ... poor lad’s head by playing at madame, we could have let him return to his island fogs; but when she encour- aged him in contemplating the carrying he...

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...y to ants on a pile of wood—is no more intelli- gible than the Bourse to a Breton peasant who has never heard of the Grand livre. With a few rare exce... ...son of these names. Asie, who looked as if she might have been born in the Island of Java, showed a face to scare the eye, as flat as a board, with th... ...s, and Mademoiselle des T ouches—a connection of the Grandlieus, who are a Breton family—were frequent visitors on their way to a ball or on their ret... ...ne expedition, and taken by surprise when the Master was entrenched in the island of Lobau, where all Europe believed him to be lost, had not an idea ... ...n, here is a way of speaking French which is as much like yours as the low Breton dialect is like that of Bur- gundy. It will be most amusing to hear ... ...p an eye on her; she was bent on coming to see you, and had plotted an es- cape. That may comfort you in misfortune!” Lucien made no reply; he sat gaz... ...alace enjoyed that isolation which now again is aimed at. This block, this island of residences and official buildings, in their midst the Sainte-Chap...

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...he one to the quarries, and sent the other to be sold for a slave into the island of Ægina. 156 Essays: Book III CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAP... ... and unanimity of such an action would be thought wonderful; our monkeyish capets 239 Montaigne [Capets, so called from their short capes, were the s... ...d of life; a change that the healthful cannot endure. Prescribe water to a Breton of threescore and ten; shut a seaman up in a stove; forbid a Basque ...

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...memory,” replied Athos, smiling, “you had not recognized me before.” “Always refractory and grumbling — monsieur — mon- sieur — What do they call you?... ... tone. “You sigh!” said Fouquet. “What mysteries! what precautions!” said the marquise, with a slight bitterness of expression; “and how evident it is... ...nd nothing to M. Agnan through the initiative of Furet. He prepared, then, to sup off a teal and a tourteau, in a hotel of La Roche-Bernard, and order... ... and a tourteau, in a hotel of La Roche-Bernard, and ordered to be brought from the cellar, to wash down these two Breton dishes, some cider, which, t... ...ll have the goodness to repeat to me a part of your tragedy presently, by way of dessert, for instance. That will be sugared roast meat, — mordioux! A... ... take me aboard, and to show me what I have never seen.” “What is that?” “A live sea-fish.” “Monsieur comes from the province?” said a fisherman. “Yes... ...ed: they were not yet furnished with their cannons, but the platforms had their gites and their madriers all prepared; the earth, beaten carefully, wa... ...en then,” said D’Artagnan, in the most natu- ral tone imaginable. “I said that because everybody here swears by M. Fouquet. The plain is M. Fouquet’s;...

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... nothing less than monachal, and that there are of those that wear Spanish capes, who have but little of the valour of Spaniards in them. Therefore is... ...ur tail. But, said Gargantua, will not you be content to pay a puncheon of Breton wine, if I do not blank and gravel you in this matter, and put you t... ...ar, for one puncheon, thou shalt have threescore pipes, I mean of the good Breton wine, not that which grows in Britain, but in the good country of Ve... ... his only, but 109 Rabelais the very barbarous nations of the Poictevins, Bretons, Manceaux, and those that dwell beyond the isles of the Ca- naries,... ...l take into your hands Majorca, Minorca, Sardinia, Corsica, with the other islands of the Ligustic and Balearian seas. Going alongst on the left hand,... ...e we will sail eastwards, and take Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Cyclade Islands, and set 115 Rabelais upon (the) Morea. It is ours, by St. Trenian... ...his neck: by the body of G—, there was neither hare nor fox that could es- cape him, and, which is more, he lined all the bitches in the country, thou... ... Verron, of Coulaines, of Chose, of Varenes, of Bourgueil, of the Bouchard Island, of the Croullay, of Narsay, of Cande, of Montsoreau, and other bord... ...take him that will do so. We will make use of the right of war, Qui potest capere, capiat. No, no, said Panurge, but tie thine ass to a crook, and rid...

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...rs live in a land of marshes and mountains, lakes and rivers, seas, gulfs, islands, and inlets, and they call themselves Suomilainen, Fen dwellers. T... ... ger of the Supreme Deity. It may be interesting to observe here that the Bretons in reverence called butterflies, “feath ers from the wings of God.... ...wrecked so often, Where so many lives have perished. Thus created were the islands, Rocks were fastened in the ocean, Pillars of the sky were planted,... ...nd gloomy dwelling, Hence to wander from the ocean, Hence to walk upon the islands, On the dry land walk and wander, Like an ancient hero wander, Walk... ... loved home and country; There beheld he scenes familiar, Saw the islands, capes, and rivers, Saw his former shipping stations, Saw he many ancient la...

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...ago; covered, as we said, with meal; nay with worse. For La Chalotais, the Breton Parlementeer, accused him not only of poltroonery and tyranny, but e... ...d perfidious Art; cannot escape from it in the lowest hut, in the remotest island of the sea. Ruin and death must strike down the loved one; and, what... ...rite, or Hieres (supposed by some, if that is any comfort, to be Calypso’s Island); Goeslard to- wards the land-fortress of Pierre-en-Cize, extant the... ...and musket-shot: and still the Edicts remained unregistered. The afflicted Bretons send remonstrance to Lomenie, by a Deputation of Twelve; whom, howe... ...e on arriving, it meets to take council; invites Lafayette and all Patriot Bretons in Paris to assist; agitates itself; becomes the Breton Club, first... ...iend, Crispin-Catiline d’Espremenil. He is returned from the Mediterranean Islands, a redhot royalist, repentant to the finger-ends;—unsettled-look- i... ...d: an Atreus’ Palace; for that Louvre window is still nigh, out of which a Capet, whipt of the Furies, fired his signal of the Saint Bartholomew! Dark... ...y night covers up this ignominious Day of Poniards; and the Chevaliers es- cape, though maltreated, with torn coat-skirts and heavy hearts, to their r... ...with them? In such extraordinary manner does dead Catholicism somerset and caper, skilfully galvanised. For, does the reader inquire into the subject-...

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...t mad. I have seen —I have seen—I have seen!—I can doubt no longer — *Frog-island. 67 Selected Writings I have seen it! I was walking at two o’clock ... ...ble. Sapeur exclaimed: “ ‘It is a horse. I see the hoofs. It must have es- caped from the meadow, during the night, and fallen in headlong.’ “But, sud... ...s, others of oak, Christs, Virgins, Saints, church ornaments, cha- subles, capes, even sacred vases, and an old gilded wooden tabernacle, where a god ... ...re traces be- hind him. Some time afterward, Madame von Chabert was on the Island of Heligoland, for the sea-bathing; and one day she saw Escovedo-Rom... ... dungeon at Schusselburg; about his exile to Siberia and his wonderful es- cape down the river Amour, on a Japanese coast- ing-vessel, and about his f... ...heir stiff, high helmets their faces had little character—two poor, sallow Breton faces, simple with an almost animal simplicity, and with gentle and ... ...ng, with their white, careening sails, recall- ing perhaps the look of the Breton waters, the harbor of Vanne, near which they lived, and the fishing-... ...eason of plums had come. Her presence sharpened the wits of the two little Breton soldiers, and they chat- tered like two birds. But, one Tuesday, Luc... ...it down close to it.” The skiff seemed to glide. They saw the trees on the island, the banks of which were so low that they could look into the depths...

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...,” the boy said. “Would you have currants, lady? These once bloomed in the island gardens of the blue Aegean. They are uncommon fine ones, and the fig... ...and I must dixcribe what they sor in the nex number. III THE CASTLE OF THE ISLAND OF FOGO. THE TRA VLER who pesews his dalitefle coarse through the fa... ...ntry resadences; but their fayvorit resadence was called the Castle of the Island of Fogo. Add I the penn of the hawther of a Codlingsby himself, I co... ...ent. “He gave up going to the Temple, and might now be seen hall day about Capel Court. He took no more hinterest in lor; but his whole talk was of ra... ...dness fell on every man in the ship. The two mates fought about her at the Cape; the surgeon, a sober, pious Scotchman, from disappointed affection, t... ...nce), an enormous Pitan soldier, with a shirt of mail, and a steel cap and cape, round which his turban wound, was leaning against the gate on his mat... ... of Bor- deaux has landed at Nantz, and has summoned the V endeans and the Bretons to mount the white cockade. “Grand Dieu! are we not happy under the... ...me of France, and summon the ban arriereban of my kingdoms. To my faithful Bretons I need not appeal. The country of Duguesclin has loyalty for an hei...

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...and had ruined us, I authorized the sale of my property, only retaining an island in the middle of the Loire where my mother was buried. Perhaps argu-... ...it was raining heavily, Foedora had called a cab for me before I could es- cape from her show of concern; she would not admit any of my excuses—my lik... ...to die on? Yes! we will breathe our last in a bath of gold—hurrah!’ and we capered afresh. “We divided the windfall. We began with double-napo- leons,... ...them, and this is how it happened. “A speculator came, offering to buy the island in the Loire belonging to me, where my mother lay buried. I closed w... ...y in my ears, in spite of the clamor of bells? “The money paid down for my island, when all my debts were discharged, left me in possession of two tho... ...ld not grasp the sense of a single word. Vague thoughts crossed him of the Breton peasant’s life of mechani- cal labor, without a wish of any kind; he... ...kid, that seemed to hang on the side of the crags in some magical fashion, capered and leapt to a slab of granite near to Raphael, and stayed there a ...

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...the sail; the boat Drave with a sudden wind across the deeps, And touching Breton sands, they disembarked. And then she followed Merlin all the way, E... ...e the city-gates Came on her brother with a happy face Making a roan horse caper and curvet For pleasure all about a field of flowers: Whom when she s... ...p the great river in the boatman’s boat. Only ye would not pass beyond the cape That has the poplar on it: there ye fixt Your limit, oft returning wi... ...ke to him, Stammered, and could not make her a reply. For out of the waste islands had he come, Where saving his own sisters he had known Scarce any b... ...ill his Queen Graspt it so hard, that all her hand was red. Then cried the Breton, ‘Look, her hand is red! These be no rubies, this is frozen blood, A... ...hou seest—if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)— To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor e...