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Then she added, after a sigh: "He kills himself with work for me. Ah, I am very unhappy, my girl; my sight is quite going. In a quarter of an hour after I begin working, I cannot see at all not even to sew sacks. The idea of being a burden to my son drives me distracted." "Oh, don't, ma'am, if Agricola heard you say that "
"Does my adopted mother know of your return?" asked Gabriel, anxious to escape from the praises of the soldier. "I wrote to her five months since, but said that I should come alone; there was a reason for it, which I will explain by and by. Does she still live in the Rue Brise-Miche? It was there Agricola was born." "She still lives there." "In that case, she must have received my letter.
Once at the entrance of the boulevard, and we shall be safe." "It is a dangerous course; but I see no other." "If there are only two men, I and Spoil-sport will keep them in check, while you will have time to carry off the children." "Father, there is a better way a surer one," cried Agricola, suddenly.
"Oh! be satisfied!" said the sewing-girl, both affected and amazed by the sorrowful expression of Florine's countenance; "I will not be ungrateful. No one in the world but Agricola shall know that I have seen you." "Thank you thank you, mademoiselle," cried Florine, with emotion. "Do you thank me?" said the other, astonished to see the large tears roll down her cheeks. "Yes!
In close proximity to the castle is the Roman station Brocavum, founded by Agricola in A.D. 79. Its outline is clearly defined, the camp within the inner ditch measuring almost one thousand feet square. Various Roman roads lead from it, and much of the materials of the outworks were built into the original Brougham Castle.
"Bonaparte a Sieyes a fait present de Crosne, Sieyes a Bonaparte a fait present du trone." But after all, it is chiefly as the birthplace of Agricola, that true model of a Roman soldier of the best description, that Frejus interests us most.
It is for that very reason that I should have been so happy if Agricola had taken this opportunity to call me for once by my own humble name Magdalen. Happily, he will never know these wishes and regrets!" Deeper and deeper touched by this page of simple grief, Florine turned over several leaves, and continued: "I have just been to the funeral of poor little Victorine Herbin, our neighbor.
They had armed themselves hastily with forks, iron bars, and clubs. Agricola, who was their leader, held in his hand a heavy sledge-hammer. The young workman was very pale; but the fire of his eye, his menacing look, and the intrepid assurance of his bearing, showed that his father's blood boiled in his veins, and that in such a struggle he might become fear-inspiring.
The ventilation of mines by a current of air forced by a Fan into the workings, had been proposed by a German named George Agricola, as far back as 1621. The arrangement is found figured in his work entitled De Re Metalicat, p. 162.
Every thing produces attachment, every thing conveys instruction. The reader loves Agricola, admires him, conceives a passion for him, accompanies him in his campaigns, shares in his disgrace and profits by his example. The interest goes on growing to the last.
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