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Motor ship Girondin, 350 tons, built and so on. 'The Landes Pit-Prop Syndicate, Ferriby, Hull. Hull, my son. There we are." "Hull! I know Hull," Merriman remarked laconically. "At least, I was there once." "We shall know it a jolly sight better than that before we're through, it seems to me," his friend replied. "Let's hope so, anyway." "What's the plan, then?
"No," she said, "we thought you were going to heaven. But I do believe you really are better. No, my dear little girl! this is very different from heaven. This is only a French farm; a farm in the Landes pretty enough! but still very different from heaven. You have been very ill, and have been lying on that little bed for the last fortnight, and we did fear that you'd die.
The signs which indicate such properties are 'wastes, landes, deserts, fern, ling. The neighbourhood of the great residences is well peopled 'with deer, wild boars, and wolves, 'Oh, he exclaims, 'if I was the legislator of France for a day, I would make such great lords skip again! 'Why, he asked, 'were the people miserable in lower Savoy? 'Because', was the reply, 'there are seigneurs everywhere'. Misery in Brittany was due 'to the execrable maxims of despotism or the equally detestable prejudices of a feudal nobility. There was nothing, he said, in the province but 'privileges and poverty, privileges of the nobles and poverty of the peasants.
Dufour, another solitary, who retired to his province, in the depth of the Landes, was above all a descriptive anatomist, and he limited himself to an inventory of the nest of a Cerceris. For him the Buprestes were dead, and their state of preservation was explained simply as a kind of embalming, due to some special action of the venom of the Hymenoptera.
And for vniting in more perfect league and amitie, of such Countryes, landes, and territories, so to be possessed and inhabited as aforesayd with our Realmes of England and Ireland, and the better incouragement of men to these enterprises: we doe by these presents, graunt and declare that all such Countries, so hereafter to be possessed and inhabited as is aforesayd, from thencefoorth shall be of the allegiance of vs, our heires and successors.
The fifth, the chief, was a Basque of the Landes from Biscarrosse. It was he who, just as the child was going on board the hooker, had, with a kick of his heel, cast the plank into the sea.
The wonderful and unceasing whirl and confusion in the narrow, crowded streets, through which they made their way slowly, and not without difficulty, perplexed and distracted him, accustomed as he had been all his life to the vast solitude of the Landes, and the deathly stillness that reigned almost unbroken in his own desolate old chateau; it seemed to him as if a mill-wheel were running round and round in his head, and he could feel himself staggering like a drunken man.
They were travelling through a part of the country now which was a great contrast to the desolate Landes. To the Baron de Sigognac, who had never been beyond their desolate expanse before, it was a revelation, and he could not sufficiently admire the richness and beauty of this region.
There will be vagrants and strollers among them from all parts of France from the Pyrenees and the Alps from the pine-woods of the Landes and the moors of Brittany.
She even kissed Cecile when she bade her good-by, and Cecile, in consequence, could think of her without fear in her distant home. Yes, Cecile's ultimate destination was France. In that pretty farmhouse on the borders of the Landes, she and Maurice grew up as happy and blessed as children could be. No longer orphans for had they not a mother in old Mme.
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