The Bible In Spain By George Borrow




































































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I tell you what, mon maitre, when I heard of the misfortune of
madame and the general, you would scarcely - Page 506
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"I Tell You What, Mon Maitre, When I Heard Of The Misfortune Of Madame And The General, You Would Scarcely Believe It, But I Actually Shed Tears, And Was Sorry That I Had Parted With Them In Unkindness On Account Of That Pernicious Quail.

"Eh bien, mon maitre, nous poursuivrons notre histoire.

The eldest son, as I told you before, was a cavalry officer and a man of resolution, and when he heard of the death of his father and mother, he vowed revenge. Poor fellow! but what does he do but desert, with two or three discontented spirits of his troop, and going to the frontier of Galicia, he raised a small faction, and proclaimed Don Carlos. For some little time he did considerable damage to the liberals, burning and destroying their possessions, and putting to death several nationals that fell into his hands. However, this did not last long, his faction was soon dispersed, and he himself taken and hanged, and his head stuck on a pole.

"Nous sommes deja presque au bout. When we arrived at the inn, the young man took me above, as you saw, and there for some time he could do nothing but weep and sob. His story is soon told:- he returned from his travels, and the first intelligence which awaited him on his arrival in Spain was, that his father was drowned, his mother dead, and his brother hanged, and, moreover, all the possessions of his family confiscated. This was not all:

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