. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. below. The Pilot told us a dreadful story about this beautifulplace. He said that a former mayor having an enmity againstthe schoolmaster {itistituteur) had set fire successively to all thehouses in the village except one, as at that time they werethatched and burned easily. He then accused the schoolmasterof this incendiarism and got him transported. Later, on hisdeath-bed, the mayor confessed his crimes, and the school-master, who was still alive, was declared innocent. He wasreleased, of course, but he decli
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. below. The Pilot told us a dreadful story about this beautifulplace. He said that a former mayor having an enmity againstthe schoolmaster {itistituteur) had set fire successively to all thehouses in the village except one, as at that time they werethatched and burned easily. He then accused the schoolmasterof this incendiarism and got him transported. Later, on hisdeath-bed, the mayor confessed his crimes, and the school-master, who was still alive, was declared innocent. He wasreleased, of course, but he declined to return to the countrywhere he had suffered such a terrible wrong. The subject hasbeen successfully dramatised. Between Charnay and Verdun we had one of those eveningvoyages which, when the effects are favourable, delude us with A Slimmer Voyage. i/9 wondrous enchantments. As usual, on these occasions, we allthree sat on the quarter-deck, enjoying the rare beauty of thehour. The effect this evening was not brilliant, but it was full. of charm—a soft decline of day in a grey and delicately tintedland, where everything was poetical and vague. The village ofEcuelles, on the right bank, composed admirably with its oldromanesque church, its rustic houses, and its steep little roadcoming down to the water, Mr. Pennell said it was like one of theprettiest of Italian villages. As usual in such cases he was
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