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Updated: May 27, 2025
"At Lake Dean the fire held us and I wouldn't think very much of any crowd that could see the trouble those poor people were in and not stay to help them." They slept well in the early part of that night in the rough quarters at the Gap House, and, while it was still dark, they were routed out to catch the funicular railway on its first trip of the day up Mount Sherman.
"I have just arrived," he said, "and know nothing of the place. Have you been here long?" "About two weeks," I answered. "Ah! then, you are a resident as it were. Are there any good ascents to be made around here?" "I have not been informed that there are. I am not a climber myself, except by funicular railway. I am always content to take other people's figures for the heights.
And then, on the very afternoon of the ball, the Countess received a telegram it was said from St Petersburg which necessitated her instant departure. And she went, in an hour, down to Montreux by the funicular railway, and was lost to the Beau-Site. This was a blow to the prestige of the Beau-Site.
And sometimes he himself went down the funicular to the water's edge, to the boat, when he was in a hurry. This also pleased him. But he was going to Brescia this day to see about going again to America. Perhaps in another month he would be gone. It was a great puzzle to me why he would go. He could not say himself.
Now and then comes a faint clank of metal from the funicular railway, but the tracks themselves are hidden among the trees of the lower slopes. A great bird, an eagle or a falcon, sweeps across the crystal spaces. Here where we are is a shelf on the mountainside, and the hand of man has converted it into a terrace.
When the summer heat arrives, in June, the young ones, probably aided by their mother, pierce the walls of their cells, leave the maternal tent, of which they know the secret outlet well, take the air on the threshold for a few hours and then fly away, carried to some distance by a funicular aeroplane, the first product of their spinning-mill.
A little below that was the terminal station of the funicular railway from Montreux. The railway ran down the sheer of the mountain into the roofs of Montreux, like a wire. On it, two toy trains crawled towards each other, like flies climbing and descending a wall. Beyond the fringe of hotels that constituted Montreux was a strip of water, and beyond the water a range of hills white at the top.
"Through the windows one can see Lake Leman, closed in near here by mountains, blue like a great turquoise, ploughed by white, triangular sails. From time to time one hears the strident noise of a steamboat's siren and the murmur of the funicular train." "To this ostentatious hotel a family of modest air came two days ago.
A large number of skilled engineers had already been brought from the fleet and were busily at work adapting the exterior industrial apparatus of the place to the purposes of an aeronautic park. They had made a gas recharging station at the corner of the American Fall above the funicular railway, and they were, opening up a much larger area to the south for the same purpose.
He was moved entirely from within, he never questioned his inevitable impulse. 'They say to me, "Don't go don't go" he shook his head. 'But I say I will go. And at that it was finished. So we saw him off at the little quay, going down the lake. He would return at evening, and be pulled up in his funicular basket.
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