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"Don't you want to show it to this gentleman?" Mr. Ruck continued. "Mercy, how you do talk about that lace!" said his wife. "Well, I want to be lively. There's every reason for it; we're going to Chamouni." "You're restless; that's what's the matter with you." And Mrs. Ruck got up. "No, I ain't," said her husband. "I never felt so quiet; I feel as peaceful as a little child." Mrs.

I wrote to my Aunt Ruxton a long much too long an account of our Chamouni excursion, since which we have dined at Pictet's with his daughters, Madame Prevost Pictet and Madame Vernet, agreeable, sensible, and the remains of great beauty; but the grandest of all his married daughters is Madame Enard.

The village of Chamouni itself has nothing in particular to recommend it. The buildings and every thing about it have a rough, coarse appearance. Before we had entered the valley this evening the sun had gone down; the sky behind the mountains was clear, and it seemed for a few moments as if darkness was rapidly coming on.

From Chamouni this year they went to Simplon, and met J.D. Forbes, the geologist, whose "viscous theory" of glaciers Ruskin adopted and defended with warmth later on, and to the Bell' Alp, long before it had been made a place of popular resort by Professor Tyndall's notice. The "Panorama of the Simplon from the Bell' Alp" is to be found in the St.

The traveller who has climbed to the mer de glace at Chamouni, and sees the valley wide outstretched far below him, sees also far above him the awful sunlit dome of "Sovran Blanc." Whatever point we may have reached, there is still a higher point to gain. Nowhere in the world are women so truly respected as here, nowhere ought they to be more happy than in this country.

But this is certain: when Miss Denham and I part at Chamouni, as I suppose we shall, this world will have come to an end so far as I am concerned." "The world doesn't come to an end that way when one is twenty-six. Does she like you, Ned?" "How can I say? She does not dislike me. We have seen very much of each other. We have been together some portion of each day for more than a month.

"Over to those hills. Don't they run a train right up?" "You can go to Chamouni," I said. "You can go to Grindelwald and Zermatt and fifty other places. You can't go by rail, but you can drive." "All right, we'll drive and not in a one-horse concern, either. Yes, Chamouni is one of the places we put down. I hope there are a few nice shops in Chamouni." Mr.

"When I had my nose against it at Chamouni I didn't see it at all. It overhung me and smothered me. Old boy" reaching up his hand to Lynde who was leaning on the back of the chair "who would ever have thought that we two" Flemming stopped short and looked earnestly into his comrade's face. "Why, Ned, I didn't notice how thin and pale you are. Are you ill?"

Indeed, at the 70th parallel the "Seas" or plains seem to have come to an end. The spy-glasses now brought the surface to within about three miles, a distance less than that between the hotel at Chamouni and the summit of Mont Blanc.

Their gentler mountain streams also permit the beds of rock to remain in firm, though fantastic, forms along their banks, and the gradual action of the cascades and eddies upon the slaty cleavage produces many pieces of foreground scenery to which higher hills can present no parallel. Unlike Chamouni Aiguilles, there is no aspect of destruction about the Matterhorn cliffs.