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"Monsieur d'Hauteserre had blamed me for not doing it," replied Michu. "But," said the prosecutor, "if you used that plaster on the post you must have had a trough and a trowel. Now, if you went to the chateau to tell Monsieur d'Hauteserre that you had done the work, how do you explain the fact that Gothard was bringing you more plaster.
Having thus shown, that the Rhône had in the course of time hollowed out its way from the central mountain of the St. Gothard through the extensive valley of the Vallais we may still further trace the marks of its operation in the more open country towards the lake. It is an observation which M. de Saussure made in his way from the valley of the Rhône to Geneva.
Gothard Tunnel, just before the meeting of the two headings in February, 1880, the temperature rose as high as 93 deg. Fahr.
The abbe comprehended then that she had made the sacrifice to mislead the agents and gain time; he raised his eyes to heaven with a gesture of admiration. "Where did they arrest Gothard, whom I hear crying?" she asked him, loud enough to be overheard. "I don't know," said the abbe. "Did he reach the farm?" "The farm!" whispered Peyrade to Corentin. "Let us send there."
The great rock tunnels of Europe are the four Alpine cuts known as Mont Cenis, St. Gothard, the Arlberg and the Simplon. The Mont Cenis is probably the most famous because at the time of its construction it was regarded as the greatest engineering achievement of the modern world, yet it is only a simple tunnel 8 miles long, while the Simplon is a double tunnel, each bore of which is 12-1/4 miles.
"Oh," said he, with unlooked-for heroism, "I was basing my calculations with reference to you on the distractions of change Paris dry-goods, rowing round Venice in gondolas, riding through the St. Gothard tunnel, and the healing hand of time. I don't intend to give a day less than six weeks to it. I'm looking forward to the tranquilising effect of the antique some myself," he added, hedging.
I must throw dust in his eyes, put him off the scent, mislead, befool, elude him somehow. How was I to shake him off now I saw that he was determined to stick to me? He had said it in so many words. He would not let me out of his sight; wherever I went he was coming too. The time was drawing on for the departure of the St. Gothard express at 9.8 A.M., and as yet I had no ticket.
Gothard, which may be considered as the centre of the Continent, since, from the different sides of this mountain, the water runs in all directions. To the German Sea it runs by the Rhine, to the Mediterranean by the Rhone, and to the Adriatic by the Po.
Gothard wept, hesitated, and finally ended by saying that Michu had told him to carry several sacks of plaster; but that each time he had met him near the farm. He was asked how many sacks he had carried. "Three," he replied. The debate ended in favor of the first proposition, the jury considering that only two sacks had been used.
"Your own master then?" "Practically, until I am called upon to serve. I hope to get a staff appointment. Meanwhile I am loafing about Europe." "Do you go beyond Lucerne?" "Across the St. Gothard certainly, and as far as Como, perhaps beyond. And you? Am I right in supposing we are to be fellow travellers by the Engadine express?" I went on by way of saying something. "To Lucerne or further?"
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