A tour through the Pyrenees . m-ney, and the great old bed is displayed in the back-ground under its red curtains. What could bemore common ! But all these good people havean air of peaceful contentment; the babies arewarm and easy in the over-wide breeches, glossyantiques transmitted from generation to must have been habits of security andabundance, for a scattered household to lie pell- i66 THE VALLE V OE OSS J U. Book II. mell on the ground in this fashion; this comfortmust have lasted from father to son, for the furni-ture to have assumed that sombre color and all thehues
A tour through the Pyrenees . m-ney, and the great old bed is displayed in the back-ground under its red curtains. What could bemore common ! But all these good people havean air of peaceful contentment; the babies arewarm and easy in the over-wide breeches, glossyantiques transmitted from generation to must have been habits of security andabundance, for a scattered household to lie pell- i66 THE VALLE V OE OSS J U. Book II. mell on the ground in this fashion; this comfortmust have lasted from father to son, for the furni-ture to have assumed that sombre color and all thehues to harmonize. There is not an object herethat does not point to the unconstraint of an easy-eoino- life and uniform o-ood-nature. If this mutualfitness of the parts is the mark of fine painting,why not of fine nature? Real or fancied, theobject is the same; I praise or I blame onewith as (jood rio-ht as the other, because thepractice or the violation of the same rules pro-duces in me the same enjoyment or the ABOVIC (JAUAS. Mountains then may have another beauty than that of grandeur ? Chap. IV. LANDSCAPES. 167 Yes, since they sometimes have a different ex-pression. Look at that little isolated chain,against which the Thermcs support themselves : no-body climbs it; it possesses neither great trees, nornaked rocks, nor points of view. And yet I ex-perienced a genuine pleasure there yesterday; youfollow the sharp backbone of the mountain thatprotrudes its vertebrae through its meagre coatingof earth; the poor but thickset turf, sunburnt andbeaten by the wind, forms a carpet firmly sewn withtenacious threads; the half-dried mosses, the knot-ty heaths strike their stubborn roots down betweenthe clefts of the rock ; the stunted firs creep along,twisting their horizontal trunks. An aromatic andpenetrating odor, concentrated and drawn forth bythe heat, comes from all these mountain feel that they are engaged in an eternal strug-gle against a barren soil, a
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