In the macquis, as in better society, there are grades of evil.

The macquis is thin here, and not considered a desirable residence.

The country here was more fertile, and the track led through the thickest macquis.

These still, stony valleys were peopled by the noiseless, predatory Ishmaels of the macquis.

But he only indicated the macquis with his whip, and made no further answer.

We never heard that in the macquis, though the Abbé Susini must have known it.

He had the air of going into the macquis.

Ten years of macquis, winter and summer-forone thing or another-donot make a man soft.

We hear strange stories in the macquis-andthings that one would never expect to reach the mountains.

I saw him in the macquis.

And she stood up in the carriage to inhale the breeze that hummed through the macquis from the cool mountain-tops.

He turned uneasily in his chair, glanced this way and that among the trees-a habit acquired in the macquis, no doubt.

Then the abbé would disappear for days together from Olmeta, and vanish into that mystic, silent, prowling world of the macquis.

I found him where I knew he would be, in the macquis, living the life that they live there, with perfect tranquillity.

I have not seen many faces in my life-forI have spent most of it in the macquis-soI remember those I have once met.

For this fiery little priest knew more of the unwritten history of the macquis than any in Corsica-infinitelymore than those whose business it was.