A Tour Through The Pyrenees

footed peasant girls, knitting as they walk alongside of their carts. Luz is in a spot where four valleys come together. Men and beasts disappear on the market-place; red umbrellas are fixed in the ground. The women seat themselves alongside their wares; around them their red-cheeked brats are nibbl

passer their bright round faces, their speaking eyes, with slight and abrupt movements. When the girls, with their red petticoats tucked up, and in capulets of thick red stuff,

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ich is very low, may be distinguished a half-obliterated Christ, and two fantastic, rudely colored birds. As you enter, a small uncovered tomb serves as font, and you are shown a low door through which passed the accursed race of the bigots. * Its first aspect is singular, but has nothing unpleasant about it.

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mes, roses and little cherubs with wings for cravats. A brownish pink angel, suspended by one foot, flies forward, bearing in its hand a golden crown. In the opposite aisle may be seen the face of the sun, with puffy cheeks, semicircular eyebrows, and loo

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love gilding. The most insipid sweetmeat is delicious t

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republic; each commune deliberated upon its own private interests; four or fi

upon which the secretary cut with his knife Roman ciphers, the value of which was known only to himself. In 1784 the intendant of Auch, who knew nothi

ed, and all important matters were discussed. A valley is a natural fortified city, defended against the outside world and stimulating association. The enemy could be arrested on his way, and crushed beneath the rocks; in winter, the torrents and the snow shut him off from all entrance. Could knights in armor

el of earth exists between two rocks, it is put to seed. Man gets from the desert as much as he can wrest from it: so terraces of fields and harvests mottle the declivity with green strips and yellow squares. B

of a horse: the sheaves are enclosed in great pieces of cloth and fastened with cords; the reaper takes the enormous bund

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he dwellers hereabouts are forced to quit their houses and take to begging." In 1592, the people of Comminge having devastated the country, "the peasants of Bigorre abandoned the culture of the land for want of cattle, and the greater part of them took the road into Spain." It is not a hundred year

ths, flight, separations, degradation. Of a truth, there is too much ill in the world. With every century, man removes a bramble and a stone that had helped to obstruct the way over which he advances; but what signifies a bramble or a stone? There remain, and always will

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comforts of life, liberty of thought, but at the same time a malevolent envy, the rage for success, impatience o

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year 1872 any happie

o not know if he is more cheerful. One thing alone increases-experience, and with it science, ind

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, like a madcap band of boys just let loose from school. The turf that they nourish is of an incomparable freshness and vigor; the herbage grows thick along the brink, bathes its feet in the water, or lies under the rush of the little waves, and its ribbons tremble in a pearly reflection under the ripples of silver. You cannot walk ten steps without stumbling upon a waterfall; swollen and boiling cascades pour down upon great blocks of stone; transparent sheets stretch themselves over the rocky shelves; threadlike st

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ght stripe the Gave, or illumine the harvests hung midway on the mountain slope. The swallows, with shrill cries, wheel high in the creeping vapors; the sound of the Gave comes up, softened by distance into a harmony that is almost aerial. The wind breathes, and dies away; a troop of little flowers flutters at t

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ck, by families, useless and free, flooded by the loveliest sunlight. And man, the slave of necessity, begs and cal

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