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The mass assumes at the surface a yellowish crust like dolerite and basalt. In the midst of this tract of trap-formation, the Morros of San Juan rise like two castles in ruins. They appear linked to the mornes of St. Sebastian, and to La Galera which bounds the Llanos like a rocky wall.
Take this lesson home, Henri! Forget not me, for you must remember me in carrying on my work but forget how you lost me. Believe that I fell in the mornes, and that you buried me there; believe this, rather than shed one drop of blood for me. Learn of God, not of Bonaparte, how to bless our race. Poison their souls no more with blood.
We meet them in the shade of the woods, and have to pass them basking on the sea-shore. There is no peace but high up in the mornes too high for the wild beast, and the reptile, and the white man." "The white man mounts as high as the eagle's nest, Genifrede. You will not be safe, even there, from the traveller or the philosopher, climbing to measure the mountain or observe the stars.
Reveal to us, then, the spot in the Mornes du Chaos, in which your treasures lie buried, and state their amount." "I have before said that I have buried no treasures. Do you disbelieve my word?" "We are sorry to do so; but facts are against you. You cannot deceive us.
In these mornes, as many as will not yield might resist for life; but my own forces, aided by those of Maurepas, may effectually keep off the grasp of the French from all places but those in which they are actually quartered. A few actions may be needful, morally needful, to show them that the blacks can fight. If this lesson will not suffice, August, alas! will exterminate the foe.
He had no doubt that General Toussaint would see clearly that in his allegiance to France was involved the duty of accounting to the government for the wealth of the island, whether open to estimate or concealed in the mornes, or elsewhere. "I have heard something of this before," said Toussaint, "and are as ignorant as yourself of any buried treasure.
But for the dark forests of cedar and pine, and this far faint dreamy sky, and the soft whiteness of the light, there are moments of our journey when I could fancy myself again in the West Indies, ascending some winding way over the mornes of Dominica or of Martinique. And, indeed, I find myself sometimes looking against the horizon glow for shapes of palms and ceibas.
I have still three brigades, and the great body of the cultivators, in reserve; but we shall all act with stronger hearts if our heart's treasure is safe in the mornes." "Are we to lose Dessalines?" asked Monsieur Pascal. "I believe not. He is severely wounded, and, at this moment, exasperated. He vows the death of Monsieur Papalier; and I vow his safety while he is my guest."
As it was, the deep bark of the murderous dogs filled her ear perpetually, and their fangs seemed to tear her heart. Her misery in the quiet mansion of the mornes was unendurable; and the very day after the funeral she departed, with her husband, to a place where no woman's eye could mark her maternal anguish where no semblance of a home kept alive the sense of desolation.
How well it will sound in the First Consul's council-chamber, that the eldest daughter of the ambitious Commander-in-Chief is the first bandit's wife in the mornes!" "Let them say what they will: we must have peace, Moyse. We have been wretched too long.
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