. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTER X. Saint-Malo. AINT-MALO, which is built righton the ocean and is enclosed byramparts, looks like a crown ofstones, the gems of which arethe machicolations. The breakersdash against its walls, and when thetide is low they gently unfurl on the sand. Littlerocks covered with sea-weed dot the beach and looklike black spots on its light surface. The largerones, which are upright and smooth, support thefortifications, thus making them appear higher thanthey really are. Above this
. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTER X. Saint-Malo. AINT-MALO, which is built righton the ocean and is enclosed byramparts, looks like a crown ofstones, the gems of which arethe machicolations. The breakersdash against its walls, and when thetide is low they gently unfurl on the sand. Littlerocks covered with sea-weed dot the beach and looklike black spots on its light surface. The largerones, which are upright and smooth, support thefortifications, thus making them appear higher thanthey really are. Above this straight line of walls, broken here andthere by a tower or the pointed ogive of a door, risethe roofs of the houses with their open garret-win-dows, their gyrating weather-cocks, and their redchimneys from which issue spirals of bluish smokethat vanishes in the air. Around Saint-Malo are a number of little barrenislands that have not a tree nor a blade of grass, butonly some old crumbling walls, great pieces of whichare hurled into the sea by each succeeding storm. On the other side of the bay, opposite th
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