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For some days we were content to enjoy looking at the blue lake Lucerne and at the piled-up masses of snow-mountains that border it all around an enticing spectacle, this last, for there is a strange and fascinating beauty and charm about a majestic snow-peak with the sun blazing upon it or the moonlight softly enriching it but finally we concluded to try a bit of excursioning around on a steamboat, and a dash on foot at the Rigi.
"As high as the sun?" asked Walter, looking up at it. "Oh dear, no, not nearly so high as that." "Well, how high? As high as the snow-mountains?" "Oh no." "Why is there always snow on the mountains, father?" asked Walter, thinking of something else. And so he went on, asking questions about one thing after another, until his father was quite tired of answering.
"The Select Party" is quite a relief, after this tragical trilogy. It is easy to believe that Hawthorne imagined this dream of a summer evening, while watching the great cumulus clouds, tinted with rose and lavender like aerial snow-mountains, floating toward the horizon.
Dahlia could see the snow-mountains in a flying glimpse; and again, peacefully seated, she could see the snow-mountains reflected in clear blue waters from her window, which, Rhoda thought, must be like heaven. On these inspired occasions, Robert presented the form of a malignant serpent in her ideas.
In that deathly state the whole body of people remained breathless, waiting what was to ensue. Like a wind from the snow-mountains it came in a thin stream, before which Fra Battista shrivelled visibly. "O thou craven!" it said, "thou wicked man! what sin can be greater than thine?
I had long looked forward to the wonderful experience of seeing this immense river, seven miles broad, rolling seaward, and the great line of breakers at the bar; but no one can realize, without actually seeing it, how much its grandeur is enhanced by the surroundings of interminable forest, and the magnificence of its snow-mountains.
And above them all, gazing down in silent greatness, rose the snow-mountains, very cold, whiter than any other whiteness on earth, pure and stainless, and apparently as unapproachable in their far-off loveliness as the deep blue of the pure sky behind them. But there was something unutterably awful to Roland Sefton in this sublimity.
Men do these things, of course, and women expect them. But you I do not say you would be ashamed so to act you cannot do it, any more than you can breathe the air of our snow-mountains." "At all events, Eveena, I no more dare do it in your presence than I dare forswear the Faith we hold in common."
The great snow-mountains of heaven moved grandly on before the west wind, ever changing outline, meeting to incorporate mass with mass, sundering with magic softness and silence. The bay of Pevensey spread with graceful line its white fringe of breakers now low upon the strand, far away to the cliffs of Hastings. 'Hastings! Thyrza exclaimed, when Mrs. Ormonde had mentioned the name.
He ceased, and looked wistfully out through the window at the white encircling rim of the opposite snow-mountains, now bathed in the full splendor of noon. Heliobas advanced and laid one hand kindly on his shoulder. ... "And do not forget," he said, "that you have brought with you from the higher regions a Poem that will in all probability make your fame!
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