In this excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson's "On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places," which part best illustrates the descripti
ve technique? The hot, sweet breath of the bank that had been saturated all day long with sunshine, and now exhaled it into my face, was like the breath of
a fellow-creature. I remember that I was haunted by two lines of French verse; in some dumb way they seemed to fit my surroundings and give
expression to the contentment that was in me, and I kept repeating to myself -
"Mon coeur est un luth suspendu,
Sitôt qu'on le touche, il résonne."
I can give no reason why these lines came to me at this time, and for that very cause I repeat them here. For all I know, they may serve to
complete the impression in the mind of the reader, as they were certainly a part of it for me.
And this happened to me in the place of all others where I liked least to stay. When I think of it I grow ashamed of my own ingratitude.
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