. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. THE INN AT SOLDEU [pdgl 271). AT THE DOOR OF THE INN {pclgC 271) To face page 238 BOOK VII THE VALE OF THE CERDAGNE The 14th of June broke inPuigcerda in a blaze of sun-light, and the day is onethat I look back upon asone of the most vivid of mylife. My room looked outon a back street, upon anold grey wall, rough withthe boulders left here by thegreat glacier of the Cer-dagne ; but, except that itwas luminous in the morn-ing sunHght, it offered nopromise of what was tocome. About nine I wentout into the
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. THE INN AT SOLDEU [pdgl 271). AT THE DOOR OF THE INN {pclgC 271) To face page 238 BOOK VII THE VALE OF THE CERDAGNE The 14th of June broke inPuigcerda in a blaze of sun-light, and the day is onethat I look back upon asone of the most vivid of mylife. My room looked outon a back street, upon anold grey wall, rough withthe boulders left here by thegreat glacier of the Cer-dagne ; but, except that itwas luminous in the morn-ing sunHght, it offered nopromise of what was tocome. About nine I wentout into the Plaza Mayor,whose houses are upheld inold sixteenth-century styleon granite posts, many of which are now askew. Underthese a rough arcade runs round the square. In thecentre is a marble statue of Cabrinetty, who defended theheroic and invincible town in the Carlist war of streets are dirty, the houses rather tattered andneglected, the shops those of a small and dingy littleprovincial town. In spite of the warm sunlight, I felt dis-consolate and chilled, for I had heard so much of me ros
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