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The wind was north-east, so that a direct course was impossible; and the Ouverture family assembled, with the exception of Toussaint himself, upon deck, gave vent, again and again, to their tears again and again strained their eyes, as the mountains with their shadowy sides, the still forests, the yellow sands, and the quiet settlements of the lateral valleys, came into view, or faded away.
Humbled to the point of exasperation, Vincent throw himself over the ship's side into the boat, and never more saw the face of an Ouverture. "I have nothing left but you," sobbed Aimee "but you and my mother. If they kill you my mother will die, and I shall be desolate." "Your brothers, my child." "No, no. I have tried all. I left you to try. I loved you always; but I thought I loved others more.
"So Isaac and I perpetually told them; but they would not listen to anything said by an Ouverture. Nor could we wonder at this, when persons of every colour were given to the same boastings; so that Isaac and I found ourselves tempted into a like strain upon occasion." "It appears as if the old days had returned," said Toussaint; "the days of Columbus and his crows.
"I little thought," he heard an old negro merchant say to a neighbour "I little thought ever to see an Ouverture planting cannon against his own colour." "Nor do you see it now, friend," said Moyse. "The insurgents in the plain are of all colours almost as many whites as blacks are discontented with the Commissary, and " "Turn your guns upon the Commissary, then, young soldier!"
The Ouverture to Tristan and Isolde is singularly calculated to create the mood in which the Opera needs to be heard. It discourses of nothing but love. It is long, it knocks and presses upon chords lying abysmally below thought, until these vibrate in response, and the curtain goes up before an almost helplessly sympathetic listener.
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