A tour through the Pyrenees . // ^N 126 THE VALLEY OF OSSAU. Book 11. III. On sunny days, we live in the open air. A sortof yard, called the English garden, stretches betweenthe street and the mountain, carpeted with a poorturf, withered and full of holes ; the ladies constitute. it their drawing-room and work there ; the dandies,lying on several chairs at once, read their journaland proudly smoke their cigar; the little girls, inembroidered/^^/z/c^^z/ji, chatter with coquettish ges-tures and graceful little ways ; they are trying inadvance the parts they will play as lovely for the
A tour through the Pyrenees . // ^N 126 THE VALLEY OF OSSAU. Book 11. III. On sunny days, we live in the open air. A sortof yard, called the English garden, stretches betweenthe street and the mountain, carpeted with a poorturf, withered and full of holes ; the ladies constitute. it their drawing-room and work there ; the dandies,lying on several chairs at once, read their journaland proudly smoke their cigar; the little girls, inembroidered/^^/z/c^^z/ji, chatter with coquettish ges-tures and graceful little ways ; they are trying inadvance the parts they will play as lovely for the red cassocks of the little jumping pea-sants, the aspect is that of the Champs leave this spot by beautiful shaded walks whichmount in zigzags upon the flanks of the two moiin- Chap. III. EAUX BONNES. 127 tains, one above the torrent, the other above thecity; toward noon, numbers of bathers may be methere lying upon the heather, nearly all with a novelin hand. These lovers of the country resemble the
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