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You can say anything to the child, Ors' Anton'. She would let herself be cut in pieces rather than betray her friends," and then, fondly, he turned to the little girl, "That's it, you little hussy; a ban on you, a curse on you you jade!" "Where am I to go, Brando?" queried Orso in a faint voice. "Faith! you must choose; either to jail or to the maquis.
Pointing to this verdant growth, the captain said: "Le maquis." As they proceeded on their course the circle of mountains appeared to close in behind the steamer, which moved along slowly in such a lake of transparent azure that one could sometimes see to the bottom. The town suddenly appeared perfectly white at the end of the gulf, on the edge of the water, at the base of the mountains.
But no della Rebbia knows the path that leads him to the jail. To the maquis, Ors' Anton'." "Farewell, then, to all my hopes!" exclaimed the wounded man, sadly. "Your hopes? Deuce take it! Did you hope to do any better with a double-barrelled gun? How on earth did the fellows contrive to hit you? The rascals must have been as hard to kill as cats." "They fired first," said Orso.
"No fear!" answered Colomba. "Let us get on. You follow me." "But I assure you we're going wrong. The village can't be over there. I'm certain we're turning our backs on it. Why, look at those lights, far away. Pietranera must be in that direction." "My dear soul," said Colomba, and she looked very much agitated, "you're perfectly right. But in the maquis less than a hundred yards from here "
But before he moved away he had slipped the money into he bandit's wallet, unperceived by him. "Good-bye, Ors' Anton'," quoth the theologian. "We shall meet again in the maquis, some day, perhaps, and then we'll continue our study of Virgil." Quite a quarter of an hour after Orso had parted company with these worthies, he heard a man running after him, as fast as he could go. It was Brandolaccio.
You've no notion what an appetite one gets in the maquis. Who sent us this was it Signorina Colomba or the mayor?" "No, uncle, it was the miller's wife. She gave me this for you, and a blanket for my mother." "What does she want of me?"
It is compared, with justice, to the Bay of Naples, and just as the schooner was entering the harbour a burning maquis, which covered the Punta di Girato, brought back memories of Vesuvius and heightened the resemblance. To make it quite complete, Naples should be seen after one of Attila's armies had devastated its suburbs for round Ajaccio everything looks dead and deserted.
On leaving Porto-Vecchio from the northwest and directing his steps towards the interior of the island, the traveller will notice that the land rises rapidly, and after three hours' walking over tortuous paths obstructed by great masses of rock and sometimes cut by ravines, he will find himself on the border of a great mâquis.
"In case of pressing need," said Orso, "a few gold coins are very useful. "No money between you and me, sir," said Brandolaccio resolutely. "In the world money is everything," remarked Castriconi, "but in the maquis, all a man need care for is a brave heart, and a gun that carries true." "I don't want to leave you without giving you something to remember me by," persisted Orso.
And I had to use my "Corsican" freely to satisfy in some small measure their curiosity about the world beyond le maquis, and beyond the sea. They asked me how it was that I, a stranger and an Englishman, spoke Corsican. To this I replied that it was spoken, though doubtless in a corrupt form, in the neighbouring mainland, Italy.
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