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The letters were now nearly worn away by the weather and the brine. But close by, in quite fresh letters, stood 'ANN AVICE, coupled with the name 'ISAAC. They could not have been there more than two or three years, and the 'Ann Avice' was probably Avice the Second. Who was Isaac? Some boy admirer of her child-time doubtless. He retraced his steps, and passed the Caros' house towards his own.
'But I care not to give to thee Kent and London, said the king. 'I tell thee frankly, Mordred, I would not trust thee there. I fear me thou wouldst try some crafty plot with the Saxon pagans if I gave them thee, as that rebel Caros did, who for a time made himself emperor of the Romans here in this land. 'Ha' done, then, my father, said Gorfalk, the son of Mordred, an insolent young man.
Like all the gardens in the isle it was surrounded by a wall of dry-jointed spawls, and at its further extremity it ran out into a corner, which adjoined the garden of the Caros. He had no sooner reached this spot than he became aware of a murmuring and sobbing on the other side of the wall.
The quarryman 'pitched his nitch, and explained to the seeming stranger that there had been three families thereabouts in the stone trade, who had got much involved with each other in the last generation. They were the Bencombs, the Pierstons, and the Caros. The Bencombs strained their utmost to outlift the other two, and partially succeeded.
The Caros were pulled completely down in the competition with the other two, and when Widow Caro's daughter married her cousin Jim Caro, he tried to regain for the family its original place in the three-cornered struggle.
This was too much for Marie. She approached. Laying a hesitating hand upon his shoulder, she looked down with real concern at the bowed, curly head. "And Pere Caros will not wait for the rent?" she queried. "No, curse him," came from between the locked fingers. "But 'Gene," persisted the girl as though puzzled, "I thought that Harjes, the banker, always paid you an income."
Light may those caros be, oh! beloved of our hearts; and refreshing the slumbers that are upon you; and may the blessing and merciful providence of God guard and keep you from evil! Amen! Amen!"
Such was Pierston's view of things. Another fancy of his, an artist's superstition merely, may be mentioned. The Caros, like some other local families, suggested a Roman lineage, more or less grafted on the stock of the Slingers.
He remembered who had used to live there and probably lived there now the Caro family; the 'roan-mare' Caros, as they were called to distinguish them from other branches of the same pedigree, there being but half-a-dozen Christian and surnames in the whole island. He crossed the road and looked in at the open doorway. Yes, there they were still. Mrs.
It was as if the Caros had found the clay but not the potter, while other families whose daughters might attract him had found the potter but not the clay. From his roomy castle and its grounds and the cliffs hard by he could command every move and aspect of her who was the rejuvenated Spirit of the Past to him in the effulgence of whom all sordid details were disregarded.
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