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Updated: May 25, 2025
At his right loomed the gaunt mass of the Gnisi, with its black forests, its bare crags, its foaming ascade, and the crenelated range of the Cornobastone; and finally, climax and cynosure, at the valley's end, Monte Sfiorito, its three snow-covered summits almost insubstantial-seeming, floating forms of luminous pink vapour, in the evening sunshine, against the intense blue of the sky.
But since I find you in this communicative vein, will you not push complaisance a half-inch further, and tell me what that thing is, suspended there in the sky above the crest of the Cornobastone that pale round thing, that looks like the spectre of a magnified half-crown?" Peter turned to the quarter her gaze indicated. "Oh, that," he said, "is nothing.
And now the cloud spread with astonishing rapidity spread and sank, cancelling the sun, shrouding the Gnisi to its waist, curling in smoky wreaths among the battlements of the Cornobastone, turning the lake from sapphire to sombre steel, filling the entire valley with a strange mixture of darkness and an uncanny pallid light.
And, for the rest, you may count upon my absolute discretion. 'She is the darling of my heart And she lives in our valley," he carolled softly. "E del mio cuore la carina, E dimor' nella nostra vallettina," he obligingly translated. "But for all the good I get of her, she might as well live on the top of the Cornobastone," he added dismally.
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