. Ninety-three . neighborhood, using water only to(lriid<, wcai-ing a leather jacket covered with silken arabesques—uncul-tivated ])ut clad embroidered—tattooing his garments as his ancestorsthe Celts had tattooed their faces, looking up to a master in his execu-tioner, speaking a dead language, which was like forcing his thoughtsto dwell in a tomb; driving his l)ullocks, sharjiening his scythe, winnow- lYJiYl/Tr- THREE. 235 ing his black graiu, kneacUug liis buckwheat biscuit, veueratiug his plowtiist, his graudmother next ; beUeviug iu the Blessed Virgiu aud the\Vhite Lady; devoted to the
. Ninety-three . neighborhood, using water only to(lriid<, wcai-ing a leather jacket covered with silken arabesques—uncul-tivated ])ut clad embroidered—tattooing his garments as his ancestorsthe Celts had tattooed their faces, looking up to a master in his execu-tioner, speaking a dead language, which was like forcing his thoughtsto dwell in a tomb; driving his l)ullocks, sharjiening his scythe, winnow- lYJiYl/Tr- THREE. 235 ing his black graiu, kneacUug liis buckwheat biscuit, veueratiug his plowtiist, his graudmother next ; beUeviug iu the Blessed Virgiu aud the\Vhite Lady; devoted to the altar, but also to the lofty mysterious stonestanding in the midst of the moor; a laborer in the plain, a fisher on thecoast, a poacher in the thicket, loving his kings, his lords, his i)riests, hisvery lice ; pensive, often immovable for entire hours upon the greatdeserted sea-shore, a melancholy listener to the sea. Then ask yourself if it Avould have been possible for this blind manto welcome that CHAPTER II THE PEASANTS
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