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He realized it, however, soon after daybreak, when, within a few hundred yards of the shores of Gaspe, to which the good Basque captain had been slowly driving the Antoine all night, there came the cry, "All hands on deck!" and "Lower the boats!" for the Antoine's time had come, and within a hand-reach of shore almost she found the end of her rickety life.
"Child, how come yuh t' fergit the basque? Er what hez happened to it?" cried Sary, sympathetically, while Barbara struggled vainly to wrench herself free from the ill-smelling wrap that generally hung in Halsey's kitchen. "Ah hev it! Polly, git the box Nolla gave me. Ah'll let Miss Bob wear my scarf!"
The Basque and the Irishman understand each other they speak the old Punic jargon; add to this the intimate relations of Catholic Ireland with Catholic Spain relations such that they terminated by bringing to the gallows in London one almost King of Ireland, the Celtic Lord de Brany; from which resulted the conquest of the county of Leitrim.
If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he would instantly have recognized upon the back of the visitor whom Basque had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down-that shop of the Changer. Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage.
Now some one will say: "Your patriotism, then, is nothing but an extension of your ego; it is purely utilitarian." Absolutely so. But how can there be any other kind of patriotism? I have two little countries, which are my homes the Basque provinces, and Castile; and by Castile I mean Old Castile.
The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his heart. He stammered: "M. Marius what?" "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius."
Twelfth, the conversion to the Faith of representatives of the Basque and Gypsy races.
The wreck was sinking more and more. The reading over, the doctor placed the parchment flat on the companion, seized his pen, and on a clear margin which he had carefully left at the bottom of what he had written, he signed himself, GERNARDUS GEESTEMUNDE: Doctor. Then, turning towards the others, he said, "Come, and sign." The Basque woman approached, took the pen, and signed herself, ASUNCION.
His downcast eyes presently noticed that she wore shoes of a peculiar kind white canvas with soles of plaited cord; in the course of conversation he learnt that these were a memento of the Basque country, about which Miss Elvan talked with a very pretty enthusiasm. Will went away, after all, in a dissatisfied mood. Girls were to him merely a source of disquiet.
The Basque houses appeared here and there among the trees, very elevated, the roof protruding, white in their extreme oldness, with their shutters brown or green, of a green ancient and faded.
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