. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTER N ROUTE! the sky is blue, thesun is shining, a:«d our feet areeager to tread on the grass. FromCrozon to Leudevenec the coun-try is quite flat, and there is not ahouse nor a tree to be seen. As faras the eye can reach, reddish moss spreads over theground. Sometimes fields of ripe wheat rise abovethe little stunted sea-rushes. The latter are flowerlessnow. and look as they did before the wagon-tracks, edged by rolls of dried mud, maketheir appearan
. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTER N ROUTE! the sky is blue, thesun is shining, a:«d our feet areeager to tread on the grass. FromCrozon to Leudevenec the coun-try is quite flat, and there is not ahouse nor a tree to be seen. As faras the eye can reach, reddish moss spreads over theground. Sometimes fields of ripe wheat rise abovethe little stunted sea-rushes. The latter are flowerlessnow. and look as they did before the wagon-tracks, edged by rolls of dried mud, maketheir appearance and continue for a long time; thenthey suddenly describe a bend and are lost to the grows in large patches between these sunkenfurrows. The wind whistles over the flats; we walkon; a welcome breeze dries the beads of perspirationon our cheeks, and when we halted we were able tohear, above the sound of our beating arteries, therustling of the wind in the grass. From time to time, a mill with rapidly revolvingwheels would rise up and point the way. The creak-ing wooden fans descended, grazed th
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