. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. which the principalremnant is a great, tall, round tower, of admirable masonry in afine state of Ciose to this, nestling, as it were,under the shadow of it, is the modern dwelling, a commodiousbut ordinary house. The top of the hill is entirely occupied bya considerable park and other domains, surrounded by a wall,and the owner has farms in the plain. The owner is a widowlady with four sons and four daughters, so the estate is destinedto a minute division. During our evening walk in this village,
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. which the principalremnant is a great, tall, round tower, of admirable masonry in afine state of Ciose to this, nestling, as it were,under the shadow of it, is the modern dwelling, a commodiousbut ordinary house. The top of the hill is entirely occupied bya considerable park and other domains, surrounded by a wall,and the owner has farms in the plain. The owner is a widowlady with four sons and four daughters, so the estate is destinedto a minute division. During our evening walk in this village, we had been muchstruck by the strange effect of seeing the place for the firsttime in twilight, not a golden twilight as when we visited theenchanted Ovanches, but a grey twilight that was only amitigated darkness. This caused us to see all things in masses,1 There is a tradition in the village that the tower once had a roof as tall as itself. io4 The Sadne. and the chief open place of the village seemed really grand,with its church high en the hill on one side, and the castle. Rupt—the Round Tower. tower lording it on the other. There were a few tourelles,especially those of a whitened old house with an enormous A Summer Voyage. 105 well-trained hedge in front of it, a grave-looking, orderly,old-fashioned place, exactly suited for aristocratic old our great surprise we discovered two fountains, one witha bronze figure of Abundance, the other with a good bronzelion, and we immediately concluded that they must be giftsfrom the great lady at the castle, but next day the Captainascertained that the village municipality had ordered andpaid for the bronzes. Few villages are so artistic in theirtastes ! In a minor degree, Rupt in daylight disappointed as Ovanches had done, especially with regard to oneview, that of the great Place. Here, in the evening, thehouses were half seen, and only the fine general arrangementwas appreciated, with the Place rapidly narro
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