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She stretched out her arms to him, but she did not venture to call him or to pray; and had she called him, it would have been useless, for it was not Rudy, only his hunting coat and hat hanging on an alpenstock, as the hunters sometimes arrange them to deceive the chamois. "Oh!" she exclaimed in her agony; "oh, that I had died on the happiest day of my life, my wedding-day.
"How charming it must be there!" said Babette; she felt again the greatest desire to visit it, and this wish could be immediately fulfilled; for a boat lay on the shore and the rope which fastened it, was easy to untie. As no one was visible, from whom they could ask permission, they took the boat without hesitation, for Rudy could row well.
He is too headstrong on this subject! 'But you cannot reach the eaglet, you said so yourself lately! Babette is still higher! 'I will have them both! said Rudy. 'Yes, I will bestow her upon you, if you make me a present of the eaglet alive! said the miller and laughed until the tears stood in his eyes. "'Thanks for your visit, Rudy! Come again to-morrow, you will find no one at home.
These flocks are never seen, yet the tinkle of their little bells has often been heard, as well as their unearthly bleating. Rudy listened eagerly, but without fear, for he knew not what fear meant; and while he listened, he fancied he could hear the roaring of the spectral herd.
"How handsome you are, Rudy!" said the old woman. "Do not put notions into my head!" answered Rudy, and laughed, but still it pleased him. "I say it once more," said the old woman, "fortune is with you!" "Yes, I agree with you there!" said he; thought of Babette and longed to be in the deep valley. "They must have returned, two days have passed since they expected to do so. I must go to Bex!"
Up, ever up; the glacier stretched itself on high as a river, of wildly heaped up masses of ice, compressed among the steep cliffs. For an instant Rudy thought on what they had told him, about his having laid with his mother, in one of these cold-breathing chasms. Such thoughts soon vanished; it seemed to him as though it were some other story one of the many which had been related to him.
Never had he felt such a longing for that deep valley as he now had. "They must have returned home by this time," said he to himself, "it is already two days over the time which they fixed upon. I must go to Bex." So Rudy set out to go to Bex; and when he arrived there, he found the miller and his daughter at home.
"He will do that," answered Rudy, "to-morrow I shall have it! To-morrow you will be entirely mine! Mine own, little, lovely wife!" "The boat!" cried Babette at the same moment. The boat, which was to convey them back, had broken loose and was sailing from the island. "I will go for it!" said Rudy. He threw off his coat, drew off his boots, sprang in the lake and swam towards the boat.
Rudy looked at the bird, understood what it wanted, and laid his hand on his rifle in order to shoot it. At that moment the chamois leaped his uncle fired the ball hit the animal, but the kid was gone, as though flight and danger had been its life's experience.
They saw no one near, so they took possession of it without asking permission of any one, and Rudy could row very well. The oars divided the pliant water like the fins of a fish that water which, with all its yielding softness, is so strong to bear and to carry, so mild and smiling when at rest, and yet so terrible in its destroying power.
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