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"And I have probably invoked some terrible heathen deity Ashtoreth, or Pugm, or Baal! How awful!" he added, with mock gravity. The girl rose to her feet. "You are laughing at me. The people about here are superstitious, and I am a Celt, too. I belong here." He jumped up with a quick protest. "No, I'm not laughing at you. Please don't think that!
But the thing must be tested by what comes from me; do not try on me the dodge of asking where I came from, how many batches of three hundred and sixty-five days my family was in Ireland. Do not play any games on me about whether I am a Celt, a word that is dim to the anthropologist and utterly unmeaning to anybody else.
Celt and Saxon are much inmixed with us, but the prevalence of Saxon blood is evinced by the public disregard of any Celtic conception of the honourable and the loveable; so that the Celt anxious to admire is rebutted, and the hatred of a Celt, quick as he is to catch at images, has a figure of hugeous animalism supplied to his malign contempt.
He compared the Celt who, as in Wales, the Scotch Highlands, in Bretagne, and in uncomprehended Ireland, retains his old characteristics and purity of breed, with the Celt whose blood, mixed by a thousand channels, dictates from Paris the manners and revolutions of the world.
If I am left alone, I am sad; and that is not good for my health." "But thou must behave well, even to the Celt." "Unless it is worth my while, I do not quarrel with any one." "Was it worth thy while to quarrel with Boris Ragnor?" "Yes or I had not quarrelled with him." "Here comes the sunshine! Gleam upon gloom! Cheery and good it is!"
Probably I get my love for the contemplative life and for nature more through my mother than through my father; Mother had the self- consciousness of the Celt, Father not at all, though he had the Celtic temperament: red hair and freckles!
Here was nothing to cramp the mind: here was the England that has absorbed Celt, Saxon, Fleming, Norman, generation after generation, each with its passing form of political faith: the England of traditional eld, the beloved country. In the meanwhile Lawrence had to find Chilmark.
The star of Irish liberty has already emerged from the clouds that have so long lain piled up along the horizon of the land of the enslaved Celt, and no power on earth can obscure its growing Lustre, until it blazes forth in the full meridian, splendor of Irish nationality and independence!
It is a love resembling the affection of the stage-box for a set of favourite performers, and Patrick, a Celt who had schooled his wits to observe and meditate, understood his position with them as one of the gallant and amusing race, as well as the reason why he had won their private esteem.
In one respect that of the treatment of his women the Irish Celt seems to have always stood in favourable contrast to most of the other rude races which then covered the north of Europe, but as regards the rest there was probably little difference. Fighting was the one aim of life.
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