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Updated: June 12, 2025
Junnoo, though incomparably the more stupendous mass, not only rising 10,000 feat higher above the sea, but towering 4000 feet higher above the ridge on which it is supported, is not nearly so remarkable in outline, so sharp, or so peaked as is Mount Cervin: it is a very much grander, but far less picturesque object.
In the distance, there was a group of white, unequal, flat or pointed mountain summits, which glistened in the sun; the Mischabel with its twin peaks, the huge group of the Weisshorn, the heavy Brunegghorn, the lofty and formidable pyramid of Mont Cervin, slayer of men, and the Dent Blanche, that terrible coquette.
Madame Cervin watched him with a triumphant eye. When he began to stammer out what was in effect an apology, she improved the opportunity, threw off her suave manners, and let him understand with a certain plain brutality that she had taken Louie's measure.
Occasionally Louie bent forward and looked disdainfully through the door. When would David be done prating? For he, in fact, was grappling with Madame Cervin, who was showing great adroitness. This was what had happened according to her. Monsieur Montjoie a man of astonishing talent, an artist altogether superior was in trouble about his statue could not find a model to suit him was in despair.
But if that were disagreeable to her, let her communicate with him 'chez Madame Pyat, Barbizon, Fontainebleau, and he would write to Dora Lomax at once, and make arrangements for her to lodge there, till he returned to Manchester. Some one could easily be found to look after her on the homeward journey if Madame Cervin took her to the train.
And to put it on for the purpose of posing as a model in a room full of strange men Madame Cervin was the only woman present his cheek burnt for his sister; and for the moment indignation and bewilderment held him paralysed. In front of him a little way, but totally unaware of the stranger's entrance, were two men whispering and laughing together.
But Madame Cervin, catching sight of him from the back of the party, pursued him panting and breathless to his own door. Would monsieur please attend to her; he was so hard to get hold of; never, in fact, at home! Would he settle her little bill, and give her more money for current expenses? Mademoiselle Louie required to be kept amused mon Dieu! from morning to night!
Then Madame Cervin, clasping her little fat hands with an exclamation of dismay, rushed up to the group, while Louie leapt down from her pedestal and went to David. 'What are you interfering for? she said, pushing Madame Cervin aside and looking him full in the eyes, her own blazing, her chest heaving.
If so, I will present you. Why not? They would amuse her. Madame Cervin would take her to all the shops, to the races, to the Bois. Que sais-je? All the while she was looking from one to the other. David's face cleared. He thought he saw a way out of this impasse. 'Louie, come here a moment. I want to speak to you.
Mademoiselle Delaunay opened the matter to Madame Cervin, a short, stout woman, with no neck, and a keen, small eye. Money was her daily and hourly preoccupation, and she could have kissed the hem of Elise Delaunay's dress in gratitude for these few francs thus placed in her way. It was some time now since she had lost her last boarder, and had not been able to obtain another.
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