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Updated: June 27, 2025
When she entered the presence of her father, he saw, by her countenance, that all was not right with her. "Who was the youth that came here some hours ago?" he asked, abruptly. Nina looked up with a frightened air, but did not answer. "Did you know that he was coming?" said the father. The maiden's eyes drooped to the ground, and her lips remained sealed. "A base-born peasant! to dare "
Between the Prince-royal and the imperial bastard, there had always been a deep animosity, the Infante having on one occasion saluted him with the most vigorous and offensive appellation which his illegitimate birth could suggest. "Base-born or not," returned Don John, "at any rate I had a better father than yours."
You would have been glad to have had one of these same base-born brats yourself a year ago." "Joking apart, my friend, you see that I am a ruined man, a man whom infernal intrigues have sent to the devil. If what I fear really happens, I shall blow my brains out.
The base-born, ignorant, cruel soldier wrecked in one moment a nation, made and unmade empires, and changed the whole course of the world. It was largely the Spanish zeal and intolerance that developed and made perfect the Reformation, for no great cause has ever won success without opposition, nay, persecution. "The blood of the martyr," says St. Augustine, "is the seed of the church."
The strife that was to ensue was between two base-born, cruel-hearted soldiers of fortune, one at the head of a little body of white men, but with all the prestige of their color and development in warfare, and weapons, the other, the now undisputed monarch of a vast if prostrate and exhausted empire, at the head of great armies flushed with victory and eager for new conquests.
The nation then, for the first time, knew the character of its ancestors; for these were not spectres not they, indeed, nor phantoms of the brain, but gaunt flesh and blood, or glad and glorious; base-born cottage churls of the olden time, because Scottish, became familiar to the love of the nation's heart, and so to its pride did the high born lineage of palace kings. * We know now the character of our own people as it showed itself in war and peace in palace, castle, hall, hut, hovel, and shieling through centuries of advancing civilization."
The words are carven deep over the portals of the temple which Christ rears; and though men may not be able to read them, and may not believe them if they do, though for centuries traffickers have defiled its courts, and base-born usurpers have set up their petty thrones, yet the writing stands sure, a dumb witness against the transient lies, a patient prophet of the eternal truth.
He had been listening with a grave face, for he had his pride, and did not relish his nephew's being hand and glove with his base-born brother and sister. "Don't you, father? Where's your socialism? I'm only trying to carry it out." "Out and away, my boy, as Samson did the gates in my mother's old bible!" answered John.
Remembrance shudders at this scene of fears, Still in my view, some tyrant chief appears, Some base-born Hessian slave walks threatening by, Some servile Scot with murder in his eye, Still haunts my sight, as vainly they bemoan Rebellions managed so unlike their own. O may I never feel the poignant pain To live subjected to such fiends again!
For, though posted very advantageously behind the corn-field fences, they could not stand a single fire from the British, but in spite of their officers, broke and fled like base-born slaves, leaving their loaded muskets sticking in the fence corners!*
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