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He took pleasure in going to Croisic on fast-days, to purchase a fish to be had for less money there than at Guerande. Thus no household was ever more truly one, more united in interests, more bound together than this noble family sacredly devoted to its duty. Masters and servants seemed made for one another. For twenty-five years there had been neither trouble nor discord.
Felicite brought forward a proposition that they should make, on the next day but one, an excursion into the curious and interesting country lying between Les Touches, Croisic, and the village of Batz.
Before the excursion to Croisic, the two women were discoursing one evening about love, and laughing at the different ways that men adopted to declare it; admitting to themselves that the cleverest men, and naturally the least loving, did not like to wander in the labyrinths of sentimentality and went straight to the point, in which perhaps they were right; for the result was that those who loved most deeply and reservedly were, for a time at least, ill-treated.
The flag-ship bearing the same name as that of Tourville burned at La Hougue, the "Royal Sun," anchored at nightfall off Croisic, a little to the northward of the Loire, where she rode in safety during the night. The next morning the admiral found himself alone, and, somewhat precipitately it would seem, ran the ship ashore to keep her out of English hands.
"You must go to Croisic and fetch a ladder," said Camille. Beatrix asked in a feeble voice to be laid down, and Calyste placed her on the narrow space between the bush and its background of rock. "I saw you, Calyste," said Camille from above. "Whether Beatrix lives or dies, remember that this must be an accident." "She will hate me," he said, with moistened eyes.
The spot was at the farther end of Croisic, a dainty little peninsula in Brittany; it was far from the port, and so inaccessible that the coast-guard seldom thought it necessary to pass that way. To float in ether after floating on the wave! ah! who would not have floated on the future as I did! Why was I thinking? Whence comes evil? who knows!
Thence we see the clock towers and the arid fields of Croisic, with the sandy dunes, which injure cultivation, and stretch as far as Batz. A few old men declare that in days long past a fortress occupied the spot.
Browning's best gifts in this volume, that looks pale beside its predecessors, are one or two short lyrics of love, which continue the series of his latest lyrical poems, begun in the exquisite prologue to La Saisiaz and the graceful epilogue to The Two Poets of Croisic, and continued in the songs of Ferishtah's Fancies and Asolando not the least valuable part of the work of his elder years.
Poor Mademoiselle des Touches might well repent of her share in our marriage if she knew to what extent I am taken for our odious rival! But this is prostitution! I am not myself; I am ashamed of it all. A frantic desire seizes me sometimes to fly from Guerande and those sands of Croisic. August 25th. I am determined to go and live in the ruins of the old chateau.
D'Artagnan found the sky blue, the breeze embalmed with saline perfumes, and he said: "I will embark with the first tide, if it be but in a nutshell." At Croisic as at Pirial, he had remarked enormous heaps of stone lying along the shore.
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