. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. FORT ST. ELME, FROM A GATE OF COLLIOURE {page 183). THE CASTLE OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. COLLIOURE {page 180) To face page 154. THE CHATEAU OF A THOUSAND YEARS 155 happy to be under his fathers roof, the immemorial home ofhis people; and the village schoolmaster was filled withpride at seeing again so prosperous an old pupil. But thevillage stood aloof and defiant. It felt in its innermost heartthat its own dignity was challenged, and it was resolved tomake its own equality plain. There is a wonderful sen
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. FORT ST. ELME, FROM A GATE OF COLLIOURE {page 183). THE CASTLE OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. COLLIOURE {page 180) To face page 154. THE CHATEAU OF A THOUSAND YEARS 155 happy to be under his fathers roof, the immemorial home ofhis people; and the village schoolmaster was filled withpride at seeing again so prosperous an old pupil. But thevillage stood aloof and defiant. It felt in its innermost heartthat its own dignity was challenged, and it was resolved tomake its own equality plain. There is a wonderful sensitiveness under the hard exteriorof the French peasant. These, one must never forget, arethe people who conquered Europe under Napoleon, who wereinspired by his eloquent appeals, and could understand theclaim of the thirty centuries that looked down upon themfrom the Pyramids of Egypt. I was driven up from Thuirby as hearty and powerful a man as one need wish to employon hard and laborious work. He is the mainstay of thechateau, one of those men who require no supervision andseem to rejoice in toil. When I came to know Fran9oisbetter,
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