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But his brother Carlos was the adored of the Absolutists, and a plot was made to compel Ferdinand to abdicate in his favor. This was the first of the Carlist plots, which, with little intermission, and always in the interest of despotism and bigotry, have menaced the safety and well-being of Spain ever since.
"Monsieur de Carrier," said he, "you are a large landowner, an eligible citizen and a Carlist; you fast on Fridays, go to mass in your parish, and occasionally kill cows for bucks; I esteem and respect you; but allow me to say that you have just uttered an old, antediluvian platitude."
"That is a Carlist watch-fire, Senorita," answered the officer briskly, and no one seemed to notice his slip of the tongue except Sarrion, who glanced at him and then decided not to remind him that the title no longer applied to Juanita. In a few moments the bishop joined them, and they all made their way down the winding path.
In reward for this exploit he was persecuted by the government, which, at that time, was the moderado or juste milieu, with the most relentless animosity; the prime minister, Ofalia, supporting with all his influence numerous and ridiculous accusations of plunder and robbery brought against the too- successful general by the Carlist canons of Toledo.
He was a violent doctrinaire Carlist, but suffered from a chronic malady which prevented him from taking the field; still there was none who could plot with a more tremendous air of mystery. He was a Carlist because it was "the correct thing" to be one in the fashionable ring at St. Jean de Luz, where he had settled, and because he inherited a name associated with chivalric insurrection.
A jennet with a 4-pounder at its heels would be a more correct representation of the strength of the Carlist ordnance. To resume the story of the siege of Oyarzun. "On the 21st," adds El Cuartel Real, "there was talk of a capitulation, and it is possible that the place has surrendered at this hour." There is no quibble about the latter statement.
The Miqueletes, a soldierly body of men in scarlet Basque scones very like to the Carlist head-gear, and a blue capote with cape attached, garrisoned the citadel. They were brave and loyal to the Republic, and the object of deep grudge to the Chicos, for they were Basques of the towns.
She had contrived to pick up some stray arms and ammunition with which she had supplied her Carlist friends, and, waiting for some opportune moment, had made a sudden rush, like Gideon upon the Midianites, with the startling results above described. But let us on with our story. The smoke rolled away, and there was disclosed a new scene. Two or three wounded Republicans lay writhing on the floor.
'Ah, these young people! exclaimed the General with a gay little sigh. 'What it is to be young and in love! But be seated, Inez be seated. Padre a chair. 'What do you propose to do? asked Senora Barenna breathlessly, for she was stout and agitated and had hurried up the steps. 'When, my dear Inez when? 'But now with this man in Ronda. You know quite well he is dangerous. He is a Carlist.
As it has happened to me before, the theme has expanded under my hands, and I shall have to rise from my desk before I penetrate to the Carlist headquarters, of which I had to say much, or have experiences of that strangest of Communes in Murcia, with its sea and land skirmishes and its motley rabble of mutineers, convicts, and nondescripts, of which I had to say much likewise.
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