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Updated: June 27, 2025
The furniture is nothing very much either, my basket-maker made it for me; he wanted to show his gratitude; and La Fosseuse made the curtains herself out of a few yards of calico. This little house of hers, and her simple furniture, seem pretty to you, because you come upon them up here on a hillside in a forlorn part of the world where you did not expect to find things clean and tidy.
The rich man, seeing himself thus exposed, without assistance or defence, in the midst of a barbarous people, whose language he did not understand, and in whose power he was, began to cry and wring his hands in the most abject manner; but the poor basket-maker, who had always been accustomed to hardships and dangers from his infancy, made signs to the people that he was their friend, and was willing to work for them, and be their servant.
But Will did not think the question unmeaning or insulting. He, the poor cripple, felt a vast superiority on the scale of joyous being over the young Hercules, well born, cultured, and wealthy, who could know so little of happiness as to ask the crippled basket-maker if he were happy. he, blessed husband and father! LILY was seated on the grass under a chestnut-tree on the lawn.
A great change had taken place in the circumstances of several of the most prominent characters of our narrative. The grandfather of Fanny the blind old basket-maker had been "gathered to his fathers," and was sleeping in a humble but honorable grave.
On this island the rich man, because he possessed neither talents to please nor strength to labour, was condemned to be the basket-maker's servant. When they were recalled, the rich man, having acquired wisdom by his misfortunes, not only treated the basket-maker as a friend during the rest of his life, but employed his riches in relieving the poor. II. Gentleman Tommy Learns to Read
He used to cut off the heads of Protestants with the most singular gusto!" "Precisely; and then used to embalm them, when they were worth the trouble; and when he was thus engaged with his herbs and plants about him, he looked like a basket-maker making baskets." "You are quite right, Planchet, he did." "Oh! I can remember things very well, at times!"
Why didn't you get rid of the poor, penny doctor, instead of encouraging him?" "I could not say much to the doctor, for he had my life in his hands, and saved it." "There might be worse things for you to face," replied the man, menacingly. And the poor old basket-maker understood but too well what he meant.
He never remembered that there were such people as David Moore, the basket-maker, and a beautiful girl, his daughter Bernardine, to whom he had lost his heart, and whom he had wedded, and that she was now waiting for him. His mind was to be a blank upon all that for many a day to come. "What do you say, Jay?" repeated Miss Pendleton; "will not the ceremony take place to-day, as we had intended?"
A ragged squad of Turkish soldiers lolled about the gate now; a couple of boys on a donkey; a grinning slave on a mule; a pair of women flapping along in yellow papooshes; a basket-maker sitting under an antique carved portal, and chanting or howling as he plaited his osiers: a peaceful well of water, at which knights' chargers had drunk, and at which the double-boyed donkey was now refreshing himself would have made a pretty picture for a sentimental artist.
Fortunately, we discovered a butcher's, secured some meat from him, and prevailed on the wife of our host, the basket-maker, to cook it for us. We then went out again, and found some cafes and wine-shops which were crowded with German soldiery.
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