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Now that she had lost Chillon, no one was near to do so much. Besides, Chillon loved Henrietta; he was her own. His heart was hers and his mind his country's. This gentleman loved the mountains; the sight of him breathed mountain air.
He had never been thrashed the sole apology Chillon discovered for him, in a flushed review of the unavenged list of injuries Carinthia had sustained. His wise old father insisted on the value of an early thrashing to trim and shape the growth of most young men.
Drawing nearer, and holding its course on the opposite shore, the eye embraced the range of rampart-like rocks that beetle over Villeneuve and Chillon, the latter a snow-white pile that seemed to rest partly on the land and partly, on the water.
There 's nothing like good hard walking to give common wine of the country a flavour and out of broken crockery. 'I think it so good, Carinthia replied, after drinking from the cup. 'In England they, do not grow wine. Are the people there kind? 'They're civilized people, of course. 'Kind warm to you, Chillon? 'Some of them, when you know them. "Warm," is hardly the word.
First and last, we hung about Chillon a good deal, both by land and by water. For the latter purpose we had to hire a boat; and deceived by the fact that the owner spoke a Latin dialect, I attempted to beat him down from his demand of a franc an hour. "It's too much," I cried. "It's the price," he answered, laconically. Clearly I was to take it or leave it, and I took it.
This young man came from the country of Vaud; his father, named Vintzenried, was keeper of the prison, or, as he expressed himself, Captain of the Castle of Chillon.
"Oh! How splendid!" Julia had cried then. "The Castle of Chillon is there!" "Why of course!" said Thorpe, complacently. They laughed gayly at him for pretending that he had known this, and he as good-humouredly accepted their banter. He drew a serious long breath of relief, however, when their backs were turned. It had gone off much better than he had feared.
With her sustainment gone, she beheld herself a titled doll, and had sternly to shut her eyes on the behind scenes, bar any shadowy approaches of womanly softness; thinking her father's daughter dishonoured in the submissive wife of the weak young nobleman Chillon despised as below the title of man. Madge and Gower came to Stoneridge on their road to London three days before their union.
'My heart is my brother's until one of us drops. 'There is not another on earth beside your brother Chillon? 'There is my child. The dwarf square tower of Croridge village church fronted them against the sky, seen of both. 'You remember it, he said; and she answered: 'I was married there. 'You have not forgotten that injury, Carinthia? 'I am a mother. 'By all the saints! you hit hard.
What wonder that the mountain-bred girl should let fly her voice. The natural carol woke an echo. She did not repeat it. 'And we will not forget our home, Chillon, she said, touching him gently to comfort some saddened feeling. The plumes of cloud now slowly entered into the lofty arch of dawn and melted from brown to purpleblack.
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