. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. e has drunk deep, and once and for ever, ofthe strong red wine of freedom. Nothing will ever changehim now in that respect. And yet, like the constellations,he is subject to the attraction of gravitation. The massivebattlements, ever soaring above his head, influence his chateau remains in a sense the chateau. Those wholive in it have some claim to honour, and the title of Vicomtecomes naturally to his lips. Wealth is in any case a symbolto which he bows down every day of his life. Far back inhi
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. e has drunk deep, and once and for ever, ofthe strong red wine of freedom. Nothing will ever changehim now in that respect. And yet, like the constellations,he is subject to the attraction of gravitation. The massivebattlements, ever soaring above his head, influence his chateau remains in a sense the chateau. Those wholive in it have some claim to honour, and the title of Vicomtecomes naturally to his lips. Wealth is in any case a symbolto which he bows down every day of his life. Far back inhis blood there is a traditional respect. Whence it comesthat if Monsieur le Vicomte is a brave man, considerate,and willing to meet fellow-citizens of the Republic in theright way, and Madame la V^icomtesse has tact and nicemanners, and is not too proud or haughty, the village is quitecontent that they shall live in peace and dignity up at thecastle. Otherwise this little community of stubborn, un-conquerable souls might become a very nest of hornets. A CROSS-COUNTRY JOURNEY TO ILLE 159. CHAPTER II A CROSS-COUNTRY JOURNEY TO ILLE One morning when the desireto be afoot came on me, I leftmy pleasant quarters at thechateau of Castell Nou, andtook the rough valley road top^ j^^-JLTt^ MxmwKSKm^^xm ^^^ There was a certain fit-El- fi ^1 J[ I^^^Mi ness in the journey, for during-^F^ m Hr>. rfiililll^^^W those great centuries when the Viscounts were lords of thelands, and barons far and wideupon the countryside paidtheir homage at the castle,this was the road they tookfrom Ille; while at Corbereby the wayside rose the tribu-tary chateau of the Cms,whose minatory bulk stillstrikes the eye of the strangeras he enters the smiHng Valley of the Tet. It is the first, andoften it is the only, glimpse he gets of the feudal past of theRoussillon as his train bears him after his long night journeyfrom Paris to his waters and his club at trains and strangers have left no mar
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