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Updated: June 16, 2025
By some means he became aware that the unsavory shed was loathsome to the fine gentleman standing beside him. "Etta was always so neat in her dress that it must have been a dreadful thing to see her laid there," he went on. "She fell just inside the door. Before she drank the poison she must have looked once at the top of old Corvatsch.
The concluding five miles of the journey were taken at a snail's pace, and Helen reflected ruefully that it was possible to "bruk ze leg" on the level high road as well as on the rocks of Corvatsch. Of course, she received offers of assistance in plenty. Every carriage that passed while the blacksmith was at work pulled up and placed a seat therein at her command. But she refused them all.
"I remember the time when people said Christian was the best man in the Bernina," he said. "He would never go back to the Valais after his daughter died. It was a strange thing that he should come to grief on a cowherd's track like that over Corvatsch. But Etta's affair " "Schweige!" snarled Bower, straightening himself suddenly.
They carried her here sixteen years ago this very day. I did not even see her. On the previous night I fell on Corvatsch." "Oh, how sad! But why did she die at that age? And in this splendid climate? Was her death unexpected?" "Unexpected!" He turned and looked at the huge mountain of which the cemetery hill formed one of the lowermost buttresses.
Then she recollected that the lovely valley she was traversing from beginning to end was itself six thousand feet above sea level, that the observatory on rugged old Ben Nevis, which she had visited when in Scotland, was, metaphorically speaking, two thousand feet beneath the smooth road along which she was being driven, and that the highest peak on Corvatsch was still six thousand feet above her head.
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