Lourdes / by Johannes Jörgensen ; translated with the author's sanction from the original Danish, by Ingeborg Lund ; with a preface by Hilaire Belloc ; with illustrations.

  • Jørgensen, Johannes, 1866-1956.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Lourdes / by Johannes Jörgensen ; translated with the author's sanction from the original Danish, by Ingeborg Lund ; with a preface by Hilaire Belloc ; with illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LOURDES i ON THE WAY—ARRIVAL It was about four o’clock one morning in June, and a cold grey sky was hanging over the plains of Toulouse. I had left Cette at midnight and had to change at Toulouse—or Tuluze, as the old city, owing its fame to the Troubadours, is called in the soft accent of the South of France—and I expected to arrive at Lourdes at half-past eleven. True to what I understand to be the reputation of French trains, that in which I was travelling also arrived late. A hurried cup of coffee at the station and then quickly on to the other train. It starts at half-past five; I contemplate the landscape awhile and am reminded of my own country about Svendborg. On a bridge across the wide Garonne—but soon after I quietly drop off to sleep and do not wake up till nearly eight. We are still amongst round green hills—or moun- tains they may perhaps be called now. But the sky is clearing, the chill greyness is yielding to the sunshine. Peasant girls are busy tossing hay in the