The Christmas kalends of Provence and some other . d all Tournon,the while, stood above us on a terrace andsympathetically looked on. In its adaptation to the needs of travellingpoets the breakfast was a master-stroke. Itwas simple, substantial, delicious; and in itsaccompanying prodigal outpouring of redand white Hermitage, Cornas, and Saint-Peray, the contrast with the bottle-niggard-liness of Serrieres was bravely marked. TheHermitage, from the hill-sides directly acrossthe river from Tournon, around the town ofTain, scarcely lives up to its heroic traditionjust now—the phylloxera having de
The Christmas kalends of Provence and some other . d all Tournon,the while, stood above us on a terrace andsympathetically looked on. In its adaptation to the needs of travellingpoets the breakfast was a master-stroke. Itwas simple, substantial, delicious; and in itsaccompanying prodigal outpouring of redand white Hermitage, Cornas, and Saint-Peray, the contrast with the bottle-niggard-liness of Serrieres was bravely marked. TheHermitage, from the hill-sides directly acrossthe river from Tournon, around the town ofTain, scarcely lives up to its heroic traditionjust now—the phylloxera having destroyedthe old vines, planted by the hermit of blessedmemory, and the new vines having in themstill the intemperate strength of youth. Yetis it a sound rich wine, in a fair way to catchup again with its ancient fame. While we feasted, the botte and the bandtook turns in exploding with violence; andwhen, with the filet, the band struck up LaCoupe away we all went with it in a chorusthat did not die out entirely until well alongi66 fe fi^^ m^ iF^. THE LANDINCx-PLACE AT TOUHXOX n Tcast-Day on tfte Rhone in the galantine. The toasts came in withthe ices, and on the basis of the regionalchampagne, Saint-Peray—sweet, but of goodflavour—that cracked its corks out with theirregular volleyings of a line of skirmishersfiring in a fog. The tri-coloured Mayor onbehalf of Tournon, and Paul Arene and de-lightful Sextius Michel on behalf of the Feli-brige and the Cigaliers, and M. Maurice Faure,the Deputy, on behalf of the Nation at large,exchanged handsome compliments in the mostpleasing way; and the toasts which theygave, and the toasts w^hich other people gave,were emphasized by a rhythmic clapping ofhands in unison by the entire company—inaccordance with the custom that obtains al-wa37S at the feasts of the Felibres. But that was no time nor place for extend-ed speech-making. All in a whiff our feastended; and in another whiff we were up andoff—whisking through the Lycee corrido
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