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There the barrenness of the soil, the inhospitality of the climate, and the comparative inaccessibility of their villages, proved their security. Yet the character of these poor peasants was altogether irreproachable. Even Louis XII. said of them, "Would to God that I were as good a Christian as the worst of these people!"
But he would listen to no such thing. We had been sent to be their guests, he said, and their guests we should remain for so long as might be convenient to us. Would we lay upon them the burden of the sin of inhospitality?
He was angry with the hieratic banishment that sent her out to subsist by the roadside for seven days in early spring; angry with the harsh inhospitality of the hills; and angrier that he could not change it all. He looked at the old mute to see that he was carefully putting away the remnants of a meal of durra bread and curds. The primitive gallantry of the original man stirred in the Maccabee.
It comprises snow-capped and lofty mountains, and dark and gloomy valleys. There are swift-flowing rivers which dash through jagged cañons; and there are enormous plains, which in winter are white with snow, and in summer are grey with the saline alkali dust. They all preserve, however, the common characteristics of barrenness, inhospitality, and misery.
There is also a cathedral, the older portion exceedingly fine; but it has been adorned at some modern epoch with a Grecian portico, good in itself, but absurdly out of keeping with the edifice which it prefaces. This being a Protestant country, the doors were all shut, an inhospitality that made me half a Catholic.
About one o'clock on the morning of the 26th we reached Sibikillin, a walled village; but the inhabitants having the character of inhospitality towards strangers, and of being much addicted to theft, we did not think proper to enter the gate.
"I should have no objection that my brother Allan should try his chance," added he, "notwithstanding that Sir Duncan Campbell was the only man who ever charged Darnlinvarach with inhospitality. Annot Lyle could always charm Allan out of the sullens, and who knows whether matrimony might not make him more a man of this world?"
It is a singular thing that cynics usually reserve their keenest shafts for women. "At last I informed Rosa that they must be told to go, and Rosa was very angry. It was her pride the pride of a new-fledged hostess, of a young matron. She was Spanish, and hot tempered. My inhospitality was terrible to her, and she spoke sharply. I was quicker to feel and to act then than I am now. I answered her.
Lines of fortification began to reveal themselves, and the Doctor thought himself arrived, but he was to wind further on, and be more struck with the dreariness and inhospitality of the rugged rock, almost bare of vegetation, the very trees of stone, and older than our creation; the melancholy late ripening harvest within stone walls, the whole surface furrowed by stern rents and crevices riven by nature, or cut into greater harshness by the quarries hewn by man.
You will pardon my apparent inhospitality. I shall ask you, sir, to kindly forget this visit and to keep away from here for the present." "I shall obey your wishes, of course, sir," Granet promised. "I can assure you that I am quite a harmless person, though." "I do not doubt it, sir," Sir Meyville replied, "but it is the harmless people of the world who do the most mischief.
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