His hands itched to hold the reins and he would, he said, be sure to go to sleep and make himself a nuisance if he sat inside.

So he had his way, and indeed in all the Hungarian plain a more adroit and careful driver could not have been found.
Gradually the night began to die away and the sky began to grow lighter behind the mountains of Bihar, which they had now left behind them.

The smaller stars vanished in groups before the brightening twilight; only the larger constellations still sparkled through the dawn.

Presently a hue of burning pink lit up the sky and long straight strips of cloud swam, like golden ribbons, before the rising sun whose increasing radiance already lit up the broad cupolas of the dark mountains.

Before the travellers extended the endless plain of the _Alfoeld_,[36] like a bridge rising from her bed to greet her beloved Lord, the Sun.
[Footnote 36: The great Hungarian plain.] On Mr.Gerzson, however, the romantic spectacle of sunrise on the _puszta_ produced no romantic impression whatsoever.