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"And the Chateau de Fleury is really seized? and you, good old man, are turned out of the place where you were born? and you too, Basile? and Madame de Fleury will never come back again! and perhaps she may be put into prison in a foreign country, and may die for want and I might have prevented all this!"
Basile asked what he knew Victoire most desired that Monsieur and Madame de Fleury should be struck from the list of emigrants, and that their property now in the hands of the nation should be restored to them. The general promised that this should be done.
Basile was an exact arithmetician, could write an excellent hand, and was a ready draughtsman and surveyor. To bring these useful talents into action, and to find employment for them, with men by whom they would be honestly rewarded, was the only difficulty a difficulty which Victoire's brother Maurice soon removed.
In several of the folk-tales the Ant-Help occurs in the performance of the tasks, and in Apuleius the successive visits to Juno and Ceres evidently represent the visits to the Queen-mother's sisters, often known as ogresses, found in Dasent, Basile, and in Grimm 88.
M. Basile was a tall handsome man, of good address: he entered with a consequential look and an air of taking his family unawares, though none but friends were present. His wife ran to meet him, threw her arms about his neck, and gave him a thousand caresses, which he received with the utmost indifference; and without making any return saluted the company and took his place at table.
Undoubtedly the fever is not so severe at Basile as in the lowlands, but there are here the usual drawbacks to West African high land, namely an over supply of rain, and equally saturating mists, to say nothing of sudden and extreme alternations of temperature, and so the colonists still fall off, and their children die continuously from the various entozoa which abound upon the island.
The only thought was to find them some protection against the ruthless cold. The first thought was, of course, directed to the hospitals. They looked in and saw a storehouse of the dead. The dead could wait; but the living must be housed. So the dead waited, and it was their turn now at the St. Basile Hospital, where Louis presented himself at dawn.
We are virtuous! . . . Won't put up with cynicism? As though it were cynicism! What's the use of firing off those foreign words? My dear girl, it's a thing that has happened ever since the world began, sanctified by tradition. What's a fireman for if not to make love to the cook?" "No, Basile! It seems you don't know me! I cannot face the idea of such a . . . such a . . . in my house.
"I saw clearly that there was no necessity of being rough with her, but I could not speak in any other tone. "'Basile, she is dying. Ivan Fedorowitch says so. "Ivan Fedorowitch was the doctor, HER doctor, her counsellor. "'Is he here? I inquired. "And all my hatred of her arose anew. "Well, what? "'Basile, go to her! Ah! how terrible it is! said she.
Those who fall, cannot be destitute; and those who rise, cannot be ridiculous or contemptible, if they have been prepared for their fortune by proper education. In shipwreck, those who carry their all in their minds are the most secure. But to return to Basile.
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