The Pyrenees: a Description of Summer Life At French Watering Places
The Pyrenees: a Description of Summer Life At French Watering Places
Blackburn Henry
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This last comprises every Y2X\fC\2Xifantaisie and extravagance in attire, brought up here in those huge boxes, that are the betes noires of all occupants of the diligence banquette — bright plumage for the inhabitants of our little nest, strange importation into the Vale of Bears ! The noise and bustle in the squares (instruments playing more discordant music than any Italian organs), the squeaks and rattles of juvenile civilisation, the chattering of their bonnes, the incessant ringing of bell...s, the shouts and cracking of whips, the voices of different nations — all confined within a limited space, and echoed back from the surrounding rocks, can scarcely be con- ceived. But everything is sunshine, politeness, and apparent gaiety, ' la vie aux eaux ; ' a scene thoroughly unique, curious, and grotesque — * grotesque qu'un peu d'eau chaude ait transports dans ses fondrieres la cuisine et la civilisation !' The cuisine is well provided, as we shall find pre- sently if we join the company who are now assembling in the handsome salle i manger of the hotel for the table d'h6te.
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