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This we knew to be a picket. Then there was no time to be lost, and away we would go for him helter-skelter across the plain; he would instantly gallop in on the main body, probably occupying a masseria. If they thought they were strong enough, they would show fight. If not, they would take to their heels in the direction of the mountains, with us in full cry after them.
One day at a large town a leading landed proprietor received notice that if he did not pay a certain sum in blackmail, I forget at this distance of time the exact amount, his farm or masseria would be robbed. This farm, which was in fact a handsome country house, was distant about ten miles from the town.
This we knew to be a picket. Then there was no time to be lost, and away we would go for him helter-skelter across the plain; he would instantly gallop in on the main body, probably occupying a masseria. If they thought they were strong enough they would show fight. If not they would take to their heels in the direction of the mountains, with us in full cry after them.
Buonaparte's natural associates were the younger men Masseria, son of a patriot line; Pozzo di Borgo, Peraldi, Cuneo, Ramolini, and others less influential. The only Corsican with French military training, he was, in view of uncertainties and probabilities already on the horizon, a person of considerable consequence.
One day at a large town a leading landed proprietor received notice that if he did not pay a certain sum in black-mail, I forget at this distance of time the exact amount, his farm or masseria would be robbed. This farm, which was in fact a handsome country-house, was distant about ten miles from the town.
This was the culmination of the skilful revolutionary agitation which had been started and directed by Masseria under Paoli's guidance. The anomalous position of both Corsica and Navarre was clearly depicted in the mere presentation of such petitions. "If the Navarrese are not French, what have we to do with them, or they with us?" said Mirabeau.
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