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    corsican


    1. Corsican Emperor of France, twice


    2. He glanced at his mariner’s watch and was grateful now that he had gotten a late start for the Corsican coast


    3. A dark, Corsican cloud came over him and he winced as he remembered lessons from his youth years and years ago


    4. "Has the Corsican ogre broken loose?" cried a third


    5. "Say this to him: 'Sire, you are deceived as to the feeling in France, as to the opinions of the towns, and the prejudices of the army; he whom in Paris you call the Corsican ogre, who at Nevers is styled the usurper, is already saluted as Bonaparte at Lyons, and emperor at Grenoble


    6. " We had forgotten to say that Jacopo was a Corsican


    7. "They are Spanish smugglers," said he; "they have with them two Corsican bandits


    8. "And what are these Corsican bandits doing here with Spanish smugglers?"


    9. "But these two Corsican bandits?" said Franz, calculating the chances of peril


    10. The supper consisted of a roast pheasant garnished with Corsican blackbirds; a boar's ham with jelly, a quarter of a kid with tartar sauce, a glorious turbot, and a gigantic lobster

    11. One fact more than the rest brought his friend "Sinbad the Sailor" back to his recollection, and that was the mysterious sort of intimacy that seemed to exist between the brigands and the sailors; and Pastrini's account of Vampa's having found refuge on board the vessels of smugglers and fishermen, reminded Franz of the two Corsican bandits he had found supping so amicably with the crew of the little yacht, which had even deviated from its course and touched at Porto-Vecchio for the sole purpose of landing them


    12. " Franz then related to his friend the history of his excursion to the Island of Monte Cristo and of his finding a party of smugglers there, and the two Corsican bandits with them


    13. "But," said Franz, "the Corsican bandits that were among the crew of his vessel?"


    14. "No, he is a countryman of yours, if a Corsican is a countryman of any one's


    15. Monte Cristo noticed, as they descended the staircase, that Bertuccio signed himself in the Corsican manner; that is, had formed the sign of the cross in the air with his thumb, and as he seated himself in the carriage, muttered a short prayer


    16. This is not a Corsican arbor, but an English garden; badly kept, I own, but still you must not calumniate it for that


    17. I knew you were a Corsican


    18. "Or, as you are a Corsican, that you had been unable to resist the desire of making a 'stiff,'


    19. At the sight of this slaughter and "As I entered Nimes, I literally waded in blood; at every step you encountered dead bodies devastation I became terrified, not for myself—for I, a simple Corsican fisherman, had nothing to fear; on the contrary, that time was most favorable for us smugglers—but for my brother, a soldier of the empire, returning from the army of the Loire, with his uniform and his epaulets, there was everything to apprehend


    20. —'A lieutenant in the Corsican battalion

    21. But, as you know, a Corsican who has sworn to avenge himself cares not for distance, so his carriage, fast as it went, was never above half a day's journey before me, who followed him on foot


    22. Scarcely had I covered it with earth, when the arm of the Corsican was stretched towards me; I saw a shadow rise, and, at the same time, a flash of light


    23. The Corsican, who had declared the vendetta against me, who had followed me from Nimes to Paris, who had hid himself in the garden, who had struck me, had seen me dig the grave, had seen me inter the child,—he might become acquainted with your person,—nay, he might even then have


    24. I fancied continually that I saw the figure of the Corsican between the branches


    25. The story has been told by the Corsican to some priest, who in his turn has repeated it


    26. The count soon heard Andrea's voice, singing a Corsican song, accompanied by the piano


    27. "I die, murdered by the Corsican Benedetto, my comrade in the galleys at Toulouse, No


    28. Let Bellars seek me in vain at the next Costume Ridotto! Let him wander sadly amidst the Dominoes and Dandies, the Virgins of the Sun, the Popes and Pantaloons, the Devils and the Jesters, the May-Day Sweeps and the Corsican Brigands


    29. God grant that the Corsican monster who is destroying the peace of Europe may be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the Almighty, in His goodness, to give us as sovereign! To say nothing of my brothers, this war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart


    30. Who was that Corsican of six and twenty? What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere handful of men against masses, hurled himself on Europe combined, and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser on Beaulieu, Melas on Wurmser, Mack on Melas? Who was this novice in war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable rancor of the old Caesarism against the new; of the regular sword against the flaming sword; and of the exchequer against genius

    31. The Corsican became the antithesis of the Bearnese


    32. The Corsican vendetta has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance


    33. It was even whispered in corners that there would soon be murder among us, that Stavrogin was not the man to put up with such an insult, and that he would kill Shatov, but with the secrecy of a Corsican vendetta


    34. Against such a friend, at such a period, we have beheld the march of the Corsican through rivers of blood; his footsteps are traced over the ashes of the proudest cities, and he sits himself down, at length, at Moscow, like Marius over the ruins of Carthage


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