A tour through the Pyrenees . rts and the whole vic-torious and tumultuous procession thatIEtoile describes: it is because hepassed by there to-day on such andsuch business, that yesterday he metthere a friend, while last year he lookedupon this gate in the midst of a publicfestival. All these thoughts hurryl^v^M^j^ along with the force of habit, repel-tl ^m ^^^^8 ^^*^ stifling the historic spectaclewhich was oroino- to lift itself into fulllio^ht and unroll itself before the down the same man in Pau : therehe knows neither hotels, nor people,nor shops ; his imagination, out of itsele
A tour through the Pyrenees . rts and the whole vic-torious and tumultuous procession thatIEtoile describes: it is because hepassed by there to-day on such andsuch business, that yesterday he metthere a friend, while last year he lookedupon this gate in the midst of a publicfestival. All these thoughts hurryl^v^M^j^ along with the force of habit, repel-tl ^m ^^^^8 ^^*^ stifling the historic spectaclewhich was oroino- to lift itself into fulllio^ht and unroll itself before the down the same man in Pau : therehe knows neither hotels, nor people,nor shops ; his imagination, out of itselement, may run at random ; no knovv^nobject will trip him up and make himfall into the cares of interest, the passion of to-day;he enters into the past as a matter of course, andwalks there as if at home, at his ease. It was eightoclock in the morning ; not a visitor at the castle,no one in the courts nor on the terrace ; I shouldnot have been too much astonished at meeting theBearnais, that lusty gallant, that very devil, who. THE VALLEY OF OSSAU. Book II. was sharp enough to get for liimsclf the name ofthe good king. His chateau is very irregular; it is only when seenfrom the valley that any grace and harmony canbe found in it. Above two rows of pointed roofsand old houses, it stands out alone against the skyand gazes upon the valley in the distance ; two bell-turrets project from the front toward the west; theoblong body follows, and two massive brick towersclose the line with their esplanades and is connected with the city by a narrow old bridge,by a broad modern one with the park, and the footof its terrace is bathed by a dark but lovely at hand, this arrangement disappears; a fifthtower upon the north side deranges the symmetry.
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