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There are numbers of them about the world, and one I know of is up here in our mountains, he pointed through the north wall towards the pine-clad Jura, 'not far from the slopes of Boudry where the forests dip towards the precipices of the Areuse The phrase ran oddly through him like an inspiration, or the beginning of a song he once had heard somewhere. 'Ah, beyond le Vallon Vert?
In the pauses, from time to time, they heard the distant thunder of the Areuse as it churned and tumbled over the Val de Travers boulders. The Colombier bells, as the hours passed, strung the sentences together; moonlight wove in and out of every adventure as they listened; stars threaded little chapters each to each with their eternal golden fastenings.
The heights of Boudry and La Tourne, that stand like guardian sentries on either side of the mountain gateway, were already cantering by. The precipices flew past. Beyond lay the smiling slopes of vineyard, field, and orchard, sprinkled with farms and villages, of which Bourcelles came first. The Areuse flowed peacefully towards the lake.
He said it was up here "where the Boudry forests dip below the cliffs towards the Areuse." ... He remembered the very words. His sister forgot to turn her usual somersaults. Wonder caught them both. 'A pair of eyes, then, or a puddle! Quick! she cried in a delighted whisper. She looked about her everywhere at once, making confused and rushing little movements of helplessness. 'Quick, quick!
There are dizzy glimpses into the gulf below. With steam shut off and brakes partly on, the train curves sharply, hiding its eyes in many tunnels lest the passengers turn giddy. Strips of bright green meadow- land, where the Areuse flows calmly, alternate with places where the ravine plunges into bottomless depths that have been chiselled out as by a giant ploughshare.
It's over there. He pointed up to the mountain heights behind them, but Jimbo guided his hand in the right direction towards the Boudry slopes where the forests dip upon the precipices of the Areuse. 'Yes, that's it exactly, he said, accepting the correction instantly; 'only I go to the top of the mountains first so as to slide down with the river of starlight.
There were cross-currents, though. The main, broad, shining stream poured downwards in front of them towards the opening of the Cave, a mile or two beyond, where the forests dipped down among the precipices of the Areuse; but from behind from some house in the slumbering village came a golden tributary too, that had a peculiar and astonishing brightness of its own.
Only that morning he had got a letter from him. 'Bourcelles, of course, Bourcelles! he cried, 'and steer for the slopes of Boudry where the forests dip towards the precipices of the Areuse. I'll send word to the children to meet us. 'Splendid! cried the Guard, and kissed him with delight.
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