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Though less elevated than the Alps, the Pyrenees mountains are no molehills. Their highest peak, Maladetta, towers above 11,000 feet; and several others are of nearly equal height while more than forty summits reach the elevation of 9,000! The most elevated peaks are near the centre of the Pyrenees, the range gradually dipping downward as the extremities are approached.
There they stand, one straight continuous jagged wall, of which no one point seems higher than another. From the Pic d'Ossau, by the Mont Perdu and the Maladetta to the Pic de Lart, are peaks past counting hard clear white against the hard clear blue, and blazing with keen light beneath the high southern sun.
Maladetta!"... Manuel's voiced cooed lovingly on the brink: "Come to us and drink, Castro." I waited for his leap with doubt, with disbelief, in the helpless agitation of the weak. Gradually he seemed to relax all over. "Drink deep; drink, and drink, and drink, Castro. Water. Clear water, cool water. Taste, Castro!"
Already there are rumours in the town of the treasure having been spirited away. To have missed that does not please Pedrito either; but let me tell you that if you had all that silver in your hand for ransom it would not save you." Turning swiftly, and catching the doctor by the shoulders, Nostromo thrust his face close to his. "Maladetta! You follow me speaking of the treasure.
"Maladetta sia la vostra testa!" "Curses be upon your head!" said one whom I passed without notice. The priests are, however, the greatest beggars.
The canal maladetta e sventurata fossa stagnating in utter foulness between coal-wharfs and builders' yards, at this point divides two neighbourhoods of different aspects.
Killing is its burden. I would the devil had all these Improvisadores. They gape round him while he twangs and screeches, the wind-bag! And he knows what words to sing to them, too. He has talent. Maladetta!" "Well, and what do you advise?" "I advise the senor to keep, now, within the Casa. No songs can give that vermin the audacity to seek the senor here.
"Maladetta Maria!" muttered Catherine between her teeth. "The Lorrains are, even now, endeavoring to turn the burghers against you," remarked Birago. The hope of gaining the crown was not the result of a premeditated plan in the minds of the restless Guises. Nothing warranted such a hope or such a plan. Circumstances alone inspired their audacity.
Italian literature is loud-voiced on this topic. The concluding stanzas of Poliziano's Orfeo, recited before the Cardinal of Mantua, the Capitoli of Berni, Bronzino, La Casa, and some of the Canti Carnasialeschi, might be cited. We might add Varchi's express testimony as to the morals of Filippo Strozzi, Lorenzino de' Medici, Pier Luigi Farnese, and Clement VII. What Segni (lib. x. p. 409) tells us about the brave Giovanni Bandini is also very significant. In the Life of San Bernardino of Siena, Vespasiano (Vite di Illustri Uomini, p. 186) writes: 'L'Italia, ch' era piena di queste tenebre, e aveva lasciata ogni norma di buoni costumi, e non era più chi conoscesse Iddio. Tanto erano sommersi e sepulti ne' maladetti e abbominevoli vizi nefandi! Gli avevano in modo messi in uso, che non temevano nè Iddio nè l'onore del mondo. Maladetta cecit
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