"Ah," said Chastenay, "it makes one feel ashamedwhen I think that I am alive and well, that I can reach out my arms to life, that I can run and leap, and draw this blessed air into my lungs...."

Is thy native land forgotten? Tell me, dost thou feel content, Far from that loved rural dwelling Where thine infant days were spent?

I wonder what's got into me to-dayI feel cross, without the least bit of reason for so feeling.

Accordingly, although it seemed from the story of Baltasar de Ocampo and Captain Garcia's other contemporaries that we were now entering the valley of Uiticos, it was with feel-hags of considerable uncertainty that we proceeded on our quest.