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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Ever since that day in Switzerland, I have been thinking of you, Sylvia, remembering your looks, your smile, and the words you spoke. I crossed the Col Dolent the next day, and all the time I felt that there was some great thing wanting. I said to myself, 'I miss my friend. I was wrong, Sylvia. I missed you. Something ached in me has ached ever since. It was my heart! Come with me now!"
At one point in the knife-like edge of this wall there was a depression, and from the depression a riband of ice ran, as it seemed from where they sat, perpendicularly down to the Glacier d'Argentière. "That is the Col Dolent," said Chayne. "Very little sunlight ever creeps down there." Sylvia shivered as she looked.
She looked down once more upon the slim snow peak of Mont Dolent and the grim wall of rocks at the Col. "I shall never forget this," she said, with shining eyes. "Never." The fascination of the mountains was upon her.
One dolmen at Locmariaker, for instance, is known as LE TOMBEAU DU VIEILLARD, a covered avenue at Saint Gildas is LE CHAMP DU TOMBEAU, and farther on a pathway leading to a ruined megalith is known as the CHEMIN DU TOMBEAU. The Abbe Harvard speaks of a remarkable monolith known as LA PIERRE DU CHAMP DOLENT, and another CHAMP DOLENT is met with near Rheims, whilst a group of monuments near Trehontereuc is called the JARDIN DES TOMBES, and the upright stones of Auvergne are known by the characteristic name of the PLOUROUSES.
She began to take heart a little; she thought of the Col Dolent with its broad ribbon of ice set in the sheer black rocks, and always in shadow. She thought of herself as going up some such hard, cold road in the shadow, and remembered that on the top of the Col one came out into sunlight and looked southward into Italy. So comforted a little, she fell asleep. It was some hours before she woke.
The roads to the Col Dolent and the Aiguille d'Argentière both start from that small mountain inn. But this was hardly the reason which Michel could give to the young girl who questioned him. He bethought him of another argument, a subtle one which he fancied would strongly appeal to her. Moreover, there was truth in it. "I will tell you why, mademoiselle. It is to be your first mountain.
He is a mystic. His mothers, his children, are dreams made real the magic of which Dolent speaks is always there. To disengage the personality of his sitter was his first idea. Slowly he built up those volumes of colour, light, and shadow, the solidity of which caused Rodin to exclaim: "Carrière is also a sculptor!" Slowly and from the most unwilling sitter he extorted the secret of a soul.
They lie deep in the very structure of human speech, and are narrowly implicated with equally profound nuances in the composition of human thought. The causes which make dolente a solemn word to the Italian ear, and dolent a queer word to the English ear, are causes which have been slowly operating ever since the Italian and the Teuton parted company on their way from Central Asia.
And, indeed, leaving a rabble of long prologues and protestations, which ordinarily these dolent contemplative lent-lovers make who never meddle with the flesh, one day he said unto her, Madam, it would be a very great benefit to the commonwealth, delightful to you, honourable to your progeny, and necessary for me, that I cover you for the propagating of my race, and believe it, for experience will teach it you.
They thrust at the Britons with lances, they struck mightily with the sword, yet never might wound nor hurt, neither bring them to the earth, nor make them their captives. There was a certain Roman, a kinsman of Marcellus, who bestrode a horse that was right speedy. This Roman was very dolent, because of his cousin's death, for he had seen his body lying in the dust.
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