The clump of sparsely planted but very green trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in the direction of Braine-l’Alleud. Échabeau, Private Café.Ī quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little valley, where there is water which passes beneath an arch made through the embankment of the road. 4, a public house, bearing on its front this sign: At the Four Winds (Aux Quatre Vents). He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence and at the angle of the crossroad, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet bearing the inscription Ancient Barrier No. In the west he perceived the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l’Alleud, which has the form of a reversed vase. He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. He was pursuing a broad paved road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce something in the nature of enormous waves. Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his course towards La Hulpe.
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