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Instead of telling what he meant, he raised his head suddenly; I made the same movement in the same instant; we both looked to one point the high tree shadowing the great berceau, and resting some of its boughs on the roof of the first classe.
The gardens are like all other French pleasure grounds, formal and comfortless, but there is one part you would all enjoy. When Buonaparte first carried Marie Louise to Compiègne she expressed much satisfaction, but remarked that it was deficient in a Berceau; it could not stand in competition with her favourite palace of Schönbrunn.
In the hollow below lay the Berceau de Dieu, with its red gables and its thatched roofs hidden beneath leaves, and its peaceful pastures smiling under the serene blue skies of France. They were happy ah, heaven, so happy! and all their little world rejoiced with them.
The weather and the price of wheat were dearer matters to them; and in the end they usually drank their red wine in amity, and went up the village street arm in arm, singing patriotic songs until their angry wives flung open their lattices and thrust their white head-gear out into the moonlight, and called to them shrewishly to get to bed and not make fools of themselves in that fashion; which usually silenced and sobered them all instantly; so that the revolutions of the Berceau de Dieu, if not quenched in a wine-pot, were always smothered in a nightcap, and never by any chance disturbed its repose.
The carre doors were yet open: I thought he was probably going to water the orange-trees in the tubs, after his occasional custom; on reaching the court, however, he took an abrupt turn and made for the berceau and the first-classe glass door. There, in that first classe I was, thence I had been watching him; but there I could not find courage to await his approach.
On other occasions you may find your way towards evening up to Gorbio and stay for supper, provided you do not mind being cheated. These are summer rambles. At present the snow lies deep. One of my favourite excursions has been up the so-called Berceau, the cradle-shaped hill which dominates Mentone on the east.
The Berceau de Dieu was as one vast furnace, in which every living creature was caught and consumed and changed to ashes. The tide of war has rolled on, and left it a blackened waste, a smoking ruin, wherein not so much as a mouse may creep or a bird may nestle. It is gone, and its place can know it nevermore. Nevermore. But who is there to care?
Alfred can climb as well as he can dance or fence: his amusement was to make the escalade of our pensionnat by mounting, first the wall; then by the aid of that high tree overspreading the grand berceau, and resting some of its boughs on the roof of the lower buildings of our premises he managed to scale the first classe and the grand salle.
Surely she was not accompanied and yet this glad, quick bark was never uttered, save in homage to one presence. Through the glass door and the arching berceau, I commanded the deep vista of the allee defendue: thither rushed Sylvie, glistening through its gloom like a white guelder-rose. She ran to and fro, whining, springing, harassing little birds amongst the bushes.
Les Anglois sont au desespoir de ce qu'ils ont tue jusqu'aux enfants au berceau." I have given the story in detail, as showing the origin and character of the destructive raids, of which New England annalists show only the results. The borders of New England were peculiarly vulnerable.
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