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Situated on the confluence of two of the most lovely rivers in the world, the Rhone and the Saone, and distributed, as it were, on hills and dales, with lawn, corn-fields, woods and vineyards interposed, and gardens, trees, &c. intermixed with the houses, it has a liveliness, an animation, an air of cleanness, and rurality, which seldom belong to a populous city.
To go to Chambord, you cross the Loire, leave it on one side, and strike away through a country in which salient features be- come less and less numerous, and which at last has no other quality than a look of intense, and peculiar rurality, the characteristic, even when it is not the charm, of so much of the landscape of France.
What had made us call his appearance odd was his great length and leanness of limb, his long, white neck, his blue, prominent eyes, and his ingenuous, unconscious absorption in the scene before him. He was not handsome, certainly, but he looked peculiarly amiable and if his overt wonderment savoured a trifle of rurality, it was an agreeable contrast to the hard, inexpressive masks about him.
But the fact is, men are no judges in such cases; they are always unjust to their own sex, and as blind to the faults of ours as beetles." "But surely, aunt, she is very arch and lively." "Pert and fussy, you mean." "Pretty, at all events? Rather?" "What, with that snub nose!!?" Lucy offered to invite other neighbors; Mrs. Bazalgette replied she didn't want to be bothered with rurality.
Although the house is lonely it is on the electric tram route. You know the sort of market garden rurality that about a dozen miles out of London offers alternate bricks and cabbages. It was easy enough to get to know about Creake locally. He mixes with no one there, goes into town at irregular times but generally every day, and is reputed to be devilish hard to get money out of.
To go to Chambord you cross the Loire, leave it on one side and strike away through a country in which salient features become less and less numerous and which at last has no other quality than a look of intense and peculiar rurality the characteristic, even when it be not the charm, of so much of the landscape of France.
If our author's picture of the vine is not couleur de rose, he is still less complimentary to the olive. Languedoc is the country of the latter luxury; and Languedoc is in the south of France aptly termed 'the austere south. 'It is austere, grim, sombre. It never smiles: it is scathed and parched. There is no freshness or rurality in it.
Halifax, we are going to take tea under the trees there my daughter's suggestion she is so fond of rurality. Will you give us the pleasure of your company? You and" here, I must confess, the second invitation came in reply to a glance of Miss March's "your friend."
The general's will mentions his property in "Bath," as the settlement was then called. Berkeley Springs are probably as enjoyable as any on the continent. There is none of that aspect of desolation and pity-my-sorrows so common at the faded resorts of the unhappy South, yet a pleasant rurality is impressed on the entertainment.
On the shortest possible notice he arrived, bag and baggage, professing himself charmed with the bachelor's quarters; and, burning with an insatiable desire to behold the rurality of the village, to listen to the beauty and the harmony of the daily choral performances, he took up his abode in the clergyman's establishment; and the very next morning he sent a rural villager over to Shadonake with a half-crown for himself and a note to be given to Miss Miller the very first time she walked or rode out alone.
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