Bread and Wine

Bread and Wine Synopsis

Excerpt from Bread and Wine: A Story of Graubunben

Very humorous; not lightly moved to anger, but being moved, hard to dissuade from the black and sullen sense of injury; of a most hardy health and courage, and thrifty as Lowland Scots. Although they are not rich in the picturesque superstitions and poetic folk-lore of Latin and Celtic races, they carry under their quiet bearing an uplifting passion for their mountains, and the gifts of true love and strong hate; and as all intensity of feeling quickly outruns prose, so these strong, homely people, who sing few ballads and reck little of witches and the other fairy folk, are sometimes moved to action as wholly poetic, devoted, or tragical, as any of the immortal lovers of.

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