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At an earlier stage they might have roused the peasantry, and marched upon the Constitution, whose life they knew was the death of their power; but it was too late in 1851. An attempt of this sort made a year or two after, among the peasantry of the Val d'Aosta, turned out a miserable failure.
After tramping on for about ten minutes, Joeboy stopped and stood motionless; then he whispered to me to come close up, without turning his head when he spoke. "Boss Val lissum with both ears," he said. "Tell Joeboy when he hear Doppie. Joeboy tell Boss Val too." "Right," I said; and we went on again so silently that I did not hear my own footsteps in the sandy earth.
What does it matter? But they heard of me, those Prussian dogs. They knew and could not forgive. How often did they come over to bomb us, Val, dear?" "Oh, many, many times," said the girl, shudderingly. "And at last they succeeded," added Madame, bitterly. "God! the black villains! Let me not think of it."
If one could conceive the existence of any such thing as a moral looking-glass placed between them, it might naturally be supposed that Val, in looking at Phil, saw himself; and that Phil in his virtuous father's face also saw his own. The son's face and character, however, had considerably the advantage over his father's.
"Ah! if I could believe it would lead to the truth," she said. "If I dared to believe this." "Why should it not?" She shook her head, smiling with such a resigned sadness that I averted my gaze and glanced across at Val Beverley who was seated on the opposite side of the bed. "If you knew if you knew."
From that time she took another little scheme into her hands that of getting Percival Elster out of his brother's favour and his brother's house. Val, on his part, seriously advised his brother not to allow the Kirtons to come to Hartledon; and this reached the ears of the dowager. You may be sure it did not tend to soothe her.
"If you're going away, what do you care?" she taunted. "H'm sure, what do I care?" He eyed her from under his brows while he bent to light a match upon the sole of his boot. Val had long ago settled his compunctions about smoking in her presence. "You seem to be all tore up, here," he observed irrelevantly. "Cleaning house?" "Yes cleaning house." Val smiled ambiguously. "Hubby in town?"
He was born in February, 1788, which would make him fourteen when his parents died in 1802. Then he disappeared in 1814, twelve years later. Just twenty-six when he went," computed Rupert. "A year younger than you are now," observed Ricky. "And nine years older than yourself at this present date," Val added pleasantly. "Why this sudden interest in mathematics?" "Oh, I don't know.
Val Beverley, fully dressed, was kneeling beside Madame de Staemer, who wore a kimono over her night-robe, and who lay huddled on the floor immediately outside the door of her room! "Oh, Mr. Knox!" cried the girl, pitifully, and raised frightened eyes to me. "For God's sake, what has happened?" Nita, the Spanish girl, who was sobbing hysterically, ran along to join Mrs. Fisher.
This was prior to the formation of the Val del Bove itself; and the question remains for consideration how this vast natural amphitheatre came to be hollowed out; for its structure shows unquestionably that it owes its form to some process of excavation.
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