A tour through the Pyrenees . 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
A tour through the Pyrenees . 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. banker who loved concerts ; he enjoyed them be-cause then he could calculate his dividends. Pardonthese hapless creatures; they are punished forknowine how to read and not knowing- how to lookabout. IV. Anomalous beeches sustain the slopes here;no description can give an idea of thesestunted colossi, eight feet high, and round which 128 THE VALLE V OF OSS A U Book II. three men could not reach. Beaten back by thewind that desolates the declivity, their sap hasbeen accumulating for centuries in huge, stunted,twisted and interlaced branches; all embossed with
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