WINDOW IN RUINED HOUSE OF A SEIGNEUR OF LES BAUX.
By E. M. Synge.
But the scene of their lives is at once eloquent and reticent. Their homes are stonily silent, and not even a wild bird makes its nest in the tempting crannies of the great mantelpieces where the flames must so often have leaped and roared.
It is the mistral that roars now on winter nights in the grass-grown chimneys.
CHAPTER XXII
RAIMBAUT DE VACQUEIRAS AND GUILHELM DES BAUX
"De la solitaire demeure
Une ombre lourde d'heure en heure,
Se détache sur le gazon,