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To restore this child to the ways of virtue would surely atone for many sins. I knew what I was doing." thought she, remembering the scene with Crevel. "But she she knows nothing." "Do you know Monsieur Samanon?" asked Atala, with an insinuating look. "No, my child; but why do you ask?" "Really and truly?" said the artless girl. "You have nothing to fear from this lady," said the Italian woman.
I remember Madame Bacciocchi coming one day to visit her brother with a little volume in her hand; it was 'Atala'. She presented it to the First Consul, and begged he would read it. "What, more romances!" exclaimed he. "Do you think I have time to read all your fooleries?" He, however, took the book from his sister and laid it down on my desk.
"Rene" seems to me very superior to "Atala." Both the stories show a talent of the first rank, but of the two the beauty of "Atala" is of the more transitory kind. The attempt to render in the style of Versailles the loves of a Natchez and a Seminole, and to describe the manners of the adorers of the Manitous in the tone of Catholic sentiment, was an attempt too violent to succeed.
After I had been in my new home about two years, Wilson bought my uncle Ben from a man named Strucker, who lived in the same neighborhood, but he did not buy uncle Ben's wife. Two years later Wilson moved to another plantation he owned in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, about one hundred miles distant from his Atala County plantation.
As for Chateaubriand, the god of their idolatry, he loathed him like poison. He used to describe how, in his youth, he had been on the point of fighting a duel with an officer who had ventured to maintain that a phrase in Atala 'la cime indéterminée des forêts' was not intolerable.
I have never seen my father, though my mother, before she died, baptised me, so that his God should be my God. Oh, Chactas, I wish I could see my father before I die! "'What is his name? I said. 'Where does he live? "'He lives at St. Augustin, she replied. 'His name is Philip Lopez. "'O, my beloved, I cried, pressing Atala wildly to may breast. 'Oh, what happiness, what joy!
In ten minutes the Baron and his wife reached the Rue Louis-le-Grand, and there Adeline found this note awaiting her: "Monsieur le Baron Hulot d'Ervy lived for one month in the Rue de Charonne under the name of Thorec, an anagram of Hector. He is now in the Passage du Soleil by the name of Vyder. He says he is an Alsatian, and does writing, and he lives with a girl named Atala Judici.
I shall be beaten " "Come, come, Atala," said the Baron, "this lady is my wife we must part " "She! As old as that! and shaking like a leaf!" said the child. "Look at her head!" and she laughingly mimicked the Baroness' palsy. The stove-fitter, who had run after the girl, came to the carriage door. "Take her away!" said Adeline. The man put his arms round Atala and fairly carried her off.
"'My father was a Spaniard, said Atala, 'but my grandmother threw water in his face, and made him go away, and she then forced my mother to give herself in marriage to Simaghan, who desired her. But she died from grief at being parted from my father, and Simaghan adopted me as his own daughter.
The pain became so keen that it made me open my eyes. A tall, white figure was bending over me, silently cutting my cords. It was Atala. I rose up and followed her through the sleeping camp. "When we were out of ear-shot she told me that she had bribed the medicine man of her tribe, and brought some barrels of fire-water into the camp and made all the warriors drunk with it.
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