A tour through the Pyrenees . mournfully; troops of wolves fled shivering overthe snow. Great reddish clouds flew across thesky, jagged and quivering like the Avings of evil spirits of the vallev rose up and eddiedthrough the night. The heads of the rocks seemedalive ; the army of the mountains appeared to shakethemselves and follow him. They traversed a wallof clouds and stopped upon the peak of Anie. Atthat very moment, a flash cleft the vapory saw a phantom tall as a huge pine, the faceburning like a furnace, enveloped in red aureoles flamed upon his head ; t
A tour through the Pyrenees . mournfully; troops of wolves fled shivering overthe snow. Great reddish clouds flew across thesky, jagged and quivering like the Avings of evil spirits of the vallev rose up and eddiedthrough the night. The heads of the rocks seemedalive ; the army of the mountains appeared to shakethemselves and follow him. They traversed a wallof clouds and stopped upon the peak of Anie. Atthat very moment, a flash cleft the vapory saw a phantom tall as a huge pine, the faceburning like a furnace, enveloped in red aureoles flamed upon his head ; the light-ning crept at his feet in dazzling trains ; his wholebody shone with white flashes. The thunder burstforth, the neighboring summit fell, the upturnedrocks smoked, and Bos heard a mighty voice say-ing: I^os has rcturned ; Bos is the friend of our Chap. I. LUZ TO BAGNERES-DE-BIGORRE. 395 master; Bos, I illumine the valley for thy returnbetter than the tapers of thy church. The poor Bos, bathed in a cold sweat, was sud-. denly borne to the foot of the chateau of Benac,and the devil said to him: Good knight, go now,find again thy wife ! Then he began to laughwith a noise like the cracking of a tree, and disap-peared, leaving behind a smell of sulphur. 396 BA GNERES AND L UCHON. Book IV. Morning dawned, the air was cold, the earthdamp, and Bos shivered under his tatters, when hesaw a superb cavalcade draw near. Ladies in
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