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It seemed to him as if it were rendering to her the honours accorded to himself, subtle and delicate fancy of the affections, of which only poets would be capable, but which others than poets may perhaps comprehend! That earlier name of Fairfield was connected in his memory with all the ruder employments, the meaner trials of his boyhood; the name of Oran, with poetry and fame.
It had been such delight to him that the same letters which formed the name of Nora should weave also that name of Oran, to which he had given distinction, which he had associated with all his nobler toils, and all his hopes of enduring fame, a mystic link between his own career and his mother's obscurer genius.
Louis XII goes to crush the revolt in Genoa; he succeeds. Michelangelo begins the decoration of the Sistine chapel. Death of Henry VII; his son, Henry VIII, succeeds to the English throne; he marries Catherine of Aragon. Campaign of Cardinal Ximenes in Africa; Oran taken by the Spaniards. Diego Columbus, son of the discoverer, made governor of Spanish America, which is first settled this year.
He had hardly returned when news arrived of extensive massacres of Italians living under British protection at Bona and Oran by order of the Dey an order actually issued while the British admiral was at Algiers. Lord Exmouth was immediately instructed to finish his work.
At that date, Mostaganem contained about fifteen thousand inhabitants, three thousand of whom were French. Besides being one of the principal district towns of the province of Oran, it was also a military station. Mostaganem rejoiced in a well-sheltered harbor, which enabled her to utilize all the rich products of the Mina and the Lower Shelif.
At last Don Pedro Navarro was despatched by Cardinal Ximenes to bring the pirates to book. He had little difficulty in taking possession of Oran and Bujēya; and Algiers was so imperfectly fortified, that he imposed his own terms.
"But I recollect perfectly one thing, that, being unwilling to let such talents as mine sleep, I wished to try upon the Arabs the new pistols that had been given to me. In consequence I embarked for Oran, and went from thence to Constantine, where I arrived just in time to witness the raising of the siege. I retreated with the rest, for eight and forty hours.
I have here a handful of brave fellows and a few pieces of artillery; if the English should appear I will run ashore, and with my party, make my way by land to Oran, Tunis, or some other port, whence we may find an opportunity of getting home." This, was his irrevocable determination.
Her voice trembled, she turned away from him and walked down the studio, stopping here and there as if to examine a cast or a figure, invisible through the tears which welled up in her eyes. The sculptor followed close behind her, until she put her hand upon the great Oran rug which hung before the door. "Then you leave me," he broke out bitterly.
But from what reason did you assume the strange and fantastic name of Oran?" The flush on Leonard's face became deeper. "My Lord," said he, in a low voice, "it is a childish fancy of mine; it is an anagram." "Ah!"
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