. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. sobsof all present at this melancholy ceremony, for safety toVillefranche. Three years later the bells of the abbey weresold, the city of Perpignan acquiring all but the largest,which went to Olot in Spain. The altars and other orna-ments of the abbey church were distributed amongst thevillages of Vernet, Sahorre, Mantet, Marquixanes, andAureilla, all of which had depended on the abbey. Andlast of all the mortal remains of Count Wilfred and his wife,the Countess Elizabeth, which had lain here for seven a
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. sobsof all present at this melancholy ceremony, for safety toVillefranche. Three years later the bells of the abbey weresold, the city of Perpignan acquiring all but the largest,which went to Olot in Spain. The altars and other orna-ments of the abbey church were distributed amongst thevillages of Vernet, Sahorre, Mantet, Marquixanes, andAureilla, all of which had depended on the abbey. Andlast of all the mortal remains of Count Wilfred and his wife,the Countess Elizabeth, which had lain here for seven and ahalf centuries, were carried down and placed in the humblechurch of Casteil. For the days of the abbey were ac-complished. If I have told this story at some length, it has been fromthe feeling that the study of such a foundation is like thestudy of a single human life, marked by the same vicissitudes,the same happy and hopeful beginning, the same tragic is in this light that the history of its nine hundred yearsis so full of interest. 94 TRAVELS IN THE PYRENEES CHAPTER IV. SAHORRE AND PY There is a fine wide road fromVernet over the ridge whichdivides it from its twin valleyof Sahorre. It is an ideal roadof a winter afternoon, once theridge is crossed, for the wholeof the eastern half of the valleyis lit by the sun. From itscrest one sees the two valleyssloping down to their junctionat Villefranche, green andlively by contrast with thebarren walls that shut themin. Here and there are theVERNET little villages with their white and yellow houses and oldgrey church towers ; and straight down both valleys run thewhite-ribbon-like highways. At Sahorre there is space forwide fields of millet and apple orchards, and an air of greatpeace and plenty lies over the whole of this charmingcountryside. But for one startling villa which someone hasbuilt here on Vavt nouveau lines, the place is stampedwith the repose and the rudesimplicity of a P3Tenean hamlet,far from the traffic
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