A tour through the Pyrenees . on supposes thatthe weather is always and dejected facespass before the eyes withoutawaking any interest. For thetwentieth time you look over THE VALLEY OF OSSAU. Book II. the marble trinkets, the shop with razors and scis-sors, a map that hangs on the wall. What is therethat one is not capable of on a rainy day, if obligedto keep moving for an hour between four walls,amidst the buzzing of two hundred people ? Youstudy the posters, contemplate assiduously somefigures which pretend to represent the manners ofthe country : these are elegant and rosy she
A tour through the Pyrenees . on supposes thatthe weather is always and dejected facespass before the eyes withoutawaking any interest. For thetwentieth time you look over THE VALLEY OF OSSAU. Book II. the marble trinkets, the shop with razors and scis-sors, a map that hangs on the wall. What is therethat one is not capable of on a rainy day, if obligedto keep moving for an hour between four walls,amidst the buzzing of two hundred people ? Youstudy the posters, contemplate assiduously somefigures which pretend to represent the manners ofthe country : these are elegant and rosy shep-herds, who lead to the dance smiling shepherd-esses rosier than themselves. You stretch yourneck out at the door only to see a gloomy passagewhere invalids are soaking their feet in a troughof warm water, all in a row like school-children oncleaning and excursion days. After these distrac-tions you return to your lodging, and find your-selves tete-a-tete, in close conversation with yourchest of drawers and your Chap. III. EAUX BONNES. 123 11. People who have any appetite take refuge at thetable ; they did not count upon the musicians. Firstwe saw a bUnd man come in, a heavy, thick-headedSpaniard, then the vioHnists of the country, then an-other bHnd man. They play pot-pourris of waltzes,country dances, bits from operas, strung- one uponanother, galloping along, above the note or belowit, with admirable fearlessness, despoiling everyrepertory in their musical race. The next day we
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