. The bird . beams in. the very walls of the palaces. At times,and frequently in the evening, they chattered very loudly and criedshrilly, to prevent us from understanding them. Often they darteddown headlong, just skimming the ground, but rising again soquickly that one might have thought thein loosened from a spring or THE SWALLOM. 201 sliot from a bow. Unlike man, who is incessantly called hack toearth, they seem to gravitate ahove. Never have I seen the iiiiagcof a more sovereign liberty. Their tricks, their sports, were travellers regarded with pleased eyes these other travell
. The bird . beams in. the very walls of the palaces. At times,and frequently in the evening, they chattered very loudly and criedshrilly, to prevent us from understanding them. Often they darteddown headlong, just skimming the ground, but rising again soquickly that one might have thought thein loosened from a spring or THE SWALLOM. 201 sliot from a bow. Unlike man, who is incessantly called hack toearth, they seem to gravitate ahove. Never have I seen the iiiiagcof a more sovereign liberty. Their tricks, their sports, were travellers regarded with pleased eyes these other travellers,which bore their pilgrimage so gaily and so lightly. The horizon,nevertheless, was heavy, and ringed by the Alps, which at that hourseemed close at hand. The black pine-woods were already dai-kenedand overshadowed by the evening ; the glaciers glittei-ed again witha ghastly whiteness. The sorrowful barrier of tliese grand mountainsseparated us from France, towards which we were soon about totravel slowlj^. .- ^I^i ^-^
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