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'I want to tell you whom I met this morning, and she related simply what had occurred. The old lady started a little as Jacinth spoke the names 'Camilla and Bessie Harper. But then she answered quietly: 'It was right of you to tell me, dear, she said. 'And you need not fear its annoying me. It is strange that they should have chosen Basse, but really it does not matter to us in the least.
This morning Mr. Hunt, the instrument maker, brought me home a Basse Viall to see whether I like it, which I do not very well, besides I am under a doubt whether I had best buy one yet or no, because of spoiling my present mind and love to business. After dinner my father and I walked into the city a little, and parted and to Paul's Church Yard, to cause the title of my English "Mare Clausum"
In this instance Monsieur de Fontanges did not accompany him to Basse Terre; but bade him adieu at his own door.
Telle une fleur des fear du jour séchée, La tête basse, et la tige penchée, Demande en vain les humides vapeurs Qui lui rendaient la vie et les couleurs. Thus, Falstaff says, "Their points being cut, down fell their hose."
Nathaniel Basse, John Hobson, Richard Wiseman and other fellow adventurers, with Captain Christopher Lawne deceased, "applied for and received, on November 13, 1620," a "confirmacon of their old pattent" in which it was specified that henceforth it would be called the "Ile of Wightes Plantacon."
This work deservedly bears a high character for the accuracy and fulness of its natural history; especially its ornithology: antiquities, manners and customs, are by no means overlooked: there are two translations into English, the one published by Debrett, 1800, 4to. is the best; it was afterwards published in 3 vols. 8vo. Voyage dans la Haute et Basse Egypte. Par Denon.
And with the temptation to act this negatively unfriendly part awoke again the sort of jealous irritation at the whole position, which she believed herself to have quite overcome. 'They perfectly haunt us, she said to herself: 'why in the world should they have chosen Basse out of all the quantity of places there are?
She looked to the end of the street inquiringly, then she lifted her eyes as if seeking something in space itself; and so nervous was she that she spoke aloud, as she mentally followed the procession step by step. "Now they are going down the Rue Basse. Ah! see, they must be turning on the square before the Sous Prefecture. There is no end to all the long streets in Beaumont-la-Ville.
The "Calcada Nova," a fine old paved "ramp" to speak Gibraltar- English connects Basse Ville and Hauteville. The latter was once a scatter of huge if not magnificent buildings, now in ruins; we shall pass through it en route to Calumbo. Here are the remains of the three chief convents, the Jesuit, the Carmelite, and the Third Order of St. Francis.
The close pursuit of the English, who came up with him off Dominica, led him to forsake this plan, sending the convoy into Basse Terre at the south end of Guadeloupe, while with the fleet he tried to beat through the channel and pass east of the island, thus drawing the English away from the transports and ridding himself of the tactical embarrassment due to the latter's presence.
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