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"The good pastor Ortler, with his fine voice and clear, earnest eyes, was in possession at all times of a charm of manner that had for me an irresistible fascination.
At the top there was a slight sprinkling of snow, and clouds hung over the lofty Ortler group of peaks. As they got lower down a steady persistent rain set in, and they were glad to get to the shelter and warmth of the oblong stone inn at Franzenshöhe, where a good dinner awaited them.
Carl left him with his friends, and we have never heard if he recovered. "'And the lady? asked pastor Ortler. "'On calm, still days, and just before an avalanche, said the kind friar, 'her image is always seen standing upon the loftiest height, beckoning with her white taper fingers to some one below.
They rested the first night at Bormeo, and started early next day for over the pass, expecting to dine at Franzenshöhe within sight of the snowy Ortler. It was late in the season and the weather was slightly uncertain, but they had a lovely Italian forenoon for going up the wonderful, zigzag road on the western side of the pass.
"The front line extends from Stelvio Pass in the Ortler Alps along the then Italian-Austrian boundary to Tonale Pass to Lake Garda, thence a little south of Altissimo, Asiago, to Mt. Grappa, Corduna and along the Piave to the sea.
Gothard and Splügen, and in the distant east the peak of the Ortler. In the south the Certosa of Pavia is visible, and sometimes the towers and domes of the city itself, with the Apennines in the background. This, perhaps the grandest view in Europe, can only be seen to perfection on favourable days. I myself only saw a part of the great Alpine range, the rest was enshrouded in mist.
'My lord lives in a square, she said. 'We shall soon be there now, he encouraged her, doubtful though the issue appeared. 'It is a summer morning for the Ortler, the Gross-Glockner, the Venediger, all our Alps, Mr. Woodseer. 'If we could fly! 'We love them. 'Why, then we beat a wing yes. 'For I have them when I want them to sight. It is the feet are so desirous.
'My lord lives in a square, she said. 'We shall soon be there now, he encouraged her, doubtful though the issue appeared. 'It is a summer morning for the Ortler, the Gross-Glockner, the Venediger, all our Alps, Mr. Woodseer. 'If we could fly! 'We love them. 'Why, then we beat a wing yes. 'For I have them when I want them to sight. It is the feet are so desirous.
Pastor Ortler was at home with the monks, and hardly had we thawed ourselves before the ample fireplace, when a supper was prepared, and over their well-spread tables the monks told stories of travellers lost among the granite heights, with clefts and ledges filled with ice.
This feat, however, would have been difficult to perform, as the girl flippantly pointed out to him, for the old man was as bald as the smooth round top of the Ortler; nevertheless, she spoke to her lover about it, and told him frankly that if there was any knife practice in that vicinity he need never come to see her again.
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