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Much credit is due to Madame Emerique from our country-people with regard to her conduct respecting stolen Bank of England notes; she takes great pains to obtain a list of such as are stolen, that she may not be unconsciously accessary in aiding the success of crime, by giving the value for that which had been obtained by theft, and adopts every means that the presenters should be detained; if all the money changers were as particular in that respect, thieves would derive no benefit in coming over to France with their stolen notes.
I do believe this is the very song which that drunken man gave me this morning, and for which I gave him the promise of the inn. I shall be ashamed to hear the song. Sir W. Let me hear it, at all events. Desire Mr. Enter Mr. HOPE and band. Some of the country-people peep in, as if wishing to enter. Sir W. Come in, my good friends. Miss GALLAGHER takes a conspicuous place.
Tell me why you are on this steamer, of all others." "I am going to shoot out West," I said, "and I want to know something of your wonderful country-people!" She let her fingers slip from my arm. "You will tell me no more than that," she murmured. "I have nothing more to tell you," I answered. Once more she leaned towards me.
They told him of Vatel's attack on the old woman, talking all at once after the fashion of country-people. "If she didn't cut the tree, Vatel was wrong; but if she did cut it, you have done two bad actions," said Pere Niseron. "Take some wine," said Tonsard, offering a full glass to the old man. "Shall we start?" said Vermichel to the sheriff's officer.
So he is described not only by his country-people, but by the writers of many hundred serious pamphlets in every province of Italy. At any bookstall you may buy cheap illustrated tracts and poems setting forth his achievements.
Time after time I saw famished fugitives pause at farmhouses and offer all of their pitifully few belongings for a loaf of bread; but the kind- hearted country-people, with tears streaming down their cheeks, could only shake their heads and tell them that they had long since given all their food away.
As the country-people say that so long as any snow is left on the ground more snow may be expected, it must all vanish simultaneously at last, so every seeker of spring-flowers has observed how accurately they seem to move in platoons, with little straggling.
She thought that if the goods were left upon some barren, uninhabited part of the shore, the pirates would probably be the first to find them; and that, if not, the rumour of such an extraordinary fact, spread by the simple country-people, would be sure to reach them.
It so happened that circumstances brought me in contact with two or three of these exclusive personages, and their remarks about the English afforded me much amusement, and may be taken as types of the general observations of the provincial French upon our country-people.
At the outset their situation had been easy and pleasant; they encountered no hostility from the country-people, who were intimidated or indifferent; they came and paid visits to the camp, and admitted the crusaders to their markets; the harvests, which were hardly finished, had been abundant: "the grapes," says Guibert of Nogent, "were still hanging on the branches of the vines; on all sides discoveries were made of grain shut up, not in barns, but in subterranean vaults; and the trees were laden with fruit."
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