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When I first came to France, few of my countrypeople travelled, save those belonging to the rich and aristocratic classes; it was not, therefore, surprising that those whose interest it might have been, on both sides of the Channel, to create a bad feeling between England and France, found little difficulty in doing so.
He shook his head, puzzled at her vehemence. "I don't wish to drag you into it against your will, but Oliveta lives there among her countrypeople. She must know many things which I, as an outsider, could never learn. I need help." There was a long silence before the girl said: "Yes, I will help, for I am still the same woman you knew in Sicily. I am still full of hatred.
That it's awfully quaint, that the pair are awfully quaint, quaint with all our dear old quaintness by which I don't mean yours and mine, but that of my own sweet countrypeople, from whom I've so deplorably degenerated that," Mrs. Assingham declared, "was originally the head and front of their appeal to me and of my interest in them.
She was smiling now, faintly and with obvious effort, but still smiling. "It is altogether my own fault, Baron," she admitted, graciously. "Please forgive my little fit of emotion. The subject is a very sore one among my countrypeople, and your sudden mention of it upset me. It was very foolish." "Duchesse, I was a clumsy idiot!" Peter declared, penitently.
The matron's English prejudices at once assumed that there had been some discreditable event in the man's life, which might be made a subject of scandalous exposure if he was attended by one of his own countrypeople. She advised Mrs. Vimpany to have nothing to do with the afflicted stranger. The nurse answered that she had promised to attend on him and she kept her promise.
Finding that force would not serve, Olga tried stratagem, in which she was such an adept. "Why do you hold out so foolishly?" she said. "You know that all your other towns are in my power, and your countrypeople are peacefully tilling their fields while you are uselessly dying of hunger. You would be wise to yield; you have no more to fear from me; I have taken full revenge for my slain husband."
"Yet to my mind no woman in Scotland is half as lovable as she!" "And no man in America begins to compare with him," Francesca confessed sadly. "Isn't it pitiful that out of the millions of our own countrypeople we couldn't have found somebody that would do? What do you think now, Lord Ronald Macdonald, of these dangerous international alliances?"
It was not long before he was enabled to fix upon that near Hereford, and spies going to the spot soon found out from the countrypeople that it was a matter of talk that a young lady of rank had been admitted by the superior. Sir Rudolph hesitated whether to go himself at the head of a strong body of men and openly to take her, or to employ some sort of device.
The manner in which they stood to their work was matter of great surprise and wonderment to the French countrypeople, who came crowding round them in their blouses, and, after gazing admiringly at their expert handling of the pick and mattock, and the immense loads of “dirt” which they wheeled out, would exclaim to each other, “Mon Dieu, voila! voila ces Anglais, comme ils travaillent!”
That it's awfully quaint, that the pair are awfully quaint, quaint with all our dear old quaintness by which I don't mean yours and mine, but that of my own sweet countrypeople, from whom I've so deplorably degenerated that," Mrs. Assingham declared, "was originally the head and front of their appeal to me and of my interest in them.
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