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"It is my glory, mademoiselle, to have been of that class to which belonged Madame Roland herself, and which represented that juste milieu which maintained the balance of society in France. When the dregs of the bas peuple rose to the surface of the revolution, commenced by the sound middle classes, we regarded the scum of aristocracy as the smaller of the two evils.
Then he let down the canvas walls of the tent, laid himself on the floor, and both were asleep in some minutes. THE entrance to the pharaoh's palace at Memphis was through a gate placed between two lofty towers or pylons. The external walls of these buildings were of gray sandstone covered from foundation to summit with bas reliefs.
All were made prisoners, and carried off the dead body of Le Bas not excepted. While residing for a short time in Paris in 1849, we were one day conducted by a friend to a large house, with an air of faded grandeur, in the eastern faubourgs, which had belonged to an aged republican, recently deceased.
Howsomever " Bas rose and took up his hat, "I writ ter ye because I 'lowed a man ought ter aid ther law ef so be he could. Es fer my own perils, I hain't none terrified over 'em. I 'lowed I mout be able ter holp ye, thet's all." "I'm obleeged ter ye," said Turk again, "ye've already holped me in givin' us ther word of his wh'arabouts. I reckon I don't need ter tax ye no further.
"I kin still do thet," he declared in a rage-choked voice. "I did hire a feller ter kill ye, but he failed me. Now I'm goin' ter finish ther job myself." Then the door opened and old Caleb Harper called from the threshold: "Did I hear somebody shout out in hyar? What's ther matter, Bas?"
But in France, neither a set-to, nor an action for assault, would repay the generality of any class removed from the poverty of the bas peuple, for so great and inexcusable an affront. In all countries it is the feelings of the generality of people, that courtesy, which is the essence of honour, obliges one to consult. As in England I should, therefore, have paid, so in France I fought.
Then somehow, as Bas sat silent, she saw again that hunger in his eyes, a hunger so wolf-like that it was difficult to harmonize it with his record of generous self-effacement; a hunger so avidly rapacious that a dim and unacknowledged uneasiness stirred in her heart. But at that moment they heard a shout from the front, and Peanuts Causey came hurriedly around the corner of the house.
«Quand on est descendu au tiers environ de cet énorme fond, on passe sur les décombres de cette vaste montagne, et par un bois de pins et de sapins; la vue ne perce pas dans ce fond ténébreux, on entend plutôt le bruit du torrent qu'on ne l'apperçoit. Ayant eu occasion de voir et d'examiner par la suite ces bas et le pied de cette étonnante montagne calcaire, nous avons vu dans plus d'un endroit qu'elle pose, et que ces fondements sont un lit de schistes argilleux ou d'ardoises feuilletées sans mélange, que ce lit est détruit et se détruit dans différens endroits, qu'il est incliné et affaissé dans d'autres, et que c'est la destruction qui a occasionné la chute d'une partie de cette montagne; elle est par-tout
Our attention, however, was sufficiently engaged by a venerable chapel, which stands yet entire, except that the roof is gone. It is about sixty feet in length, and thirty in breadth. On one side of the altar is a bas relief of the blessed Virgin, and by it lies a little bell; which, though cracked, and without a clapper, has remained there for ages, guarded only by the venerableness of the place.
It was one of these swollen bands which had entered the street while Tavannes spoke; nor could he have called to his aid a more powerful advocate. As the deep "A bas! A bas!" rolled like thunder along the fronts of the houses, as the more strident "Tuez!
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