. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. ance, with her airs of metallicprosperity, her self-conscious march towards success, herlove of worldly things, to the simplicity, the humanity, themellowness of such an old Spanish town, is fraught withcharm. It is like passing from the West to the East. One has but to sit down quietly outside some doorwayand wait, and the scroll of its life is unrolled before of goats come by with their tinkling bells, and peoplecome out with their coppers for a cup of milk; the beggarpleads with you for an
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. ance, with her airs of metallicprosperity, her self-conscious march towards success, herlove of worldly things, to the simplicity, the humanity, themellowness of such an old Spanish town, is fraught withcharm. It is like passing from the West to the East. One has but to sit down quietly outside some doorwayand wait, and the scroll of its life is unrolled before of goats come by with their tinkling bells, and peoplecome out with their coppers for a cup of milk; the beggarpleads with you for an alms, and there is no one to forbidhim, for Live and let live is the maxim all over the of the Church go by, the priests in black velvetand gold, the acolytes in lace and scarlet, swinging theircensers and holding great candlesticks before them; andpeople who are seated rise and take off their hats. On market-days the streets are crowded with a double lineof temporary booths, and peasant women display their poultryand their vegetables and fruit under the shelter of big. STREET IN URGELL {page 298)
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