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To the right, at the foot of the lake, tower the great snowy mountains, the cone of the Schreckhorn, the square top of the Eiger, the Jungfrau, just showing over the hills, and the Blumlisalp rising into heaven clear and silvery. What can one do in such a spot, but swim in the lake, lie on the shore, and watch the passing steamers and the changing light on the mountains?
Both Sir Heinz Schorlin and Jungfrau Elizabeth Ortlieb kept their word and joined each other here to their extreme amazement, I should suppose, as to my knowledge they never met before to receive me, and thus had an interview which, however loudly they may contradict it, I call a nocturnal meeting.
And how wonderful she is in this gorgeous sunlight," went on Mrs. Gaston, in what may be described as a hurried, nervous manner. "I had the briefest glimpse of her," mumbled Robin. "When did she come?" "Centuries and centuries ago, Mr. Schmidt," said she, with a smile. "I was speaking of the Jungfrau." "Oh!" he exclaimed, flushing. "I thought you er yes, of course! Really quite wonderful.
These meadows were encircled by lofty hills, which receded a little in the centre, so that the most beautifully formed of Swiss mountains the snow-crowned Jungfrau could be distinctly seen glittering in the distance. A number of elegantly dressed gentlemen and ladies from foreign lands, and crowds of country people from the neighboring cantons, were assembled in the town.
This was indeed very obvious; for the Jungfrau, from the windows of the hotel, was seen through the great gap in the near mountains which Mr. George had pointed out as the mouth of the valley of the Lütschine. In fact, had it not been for that gap in the near mountains, the great snow-covered summit could not have been seen from the hotels at all. "We go up that valley," continued Mr.
It is well now, it is quiet. 'Good, said the Jungfrau. 'But we have gossipped enough, old fellow. It's time to slumber. 'It is time, indeed. The huge mountains sleep; the green, clear sky sleeps over the region of eternal silence. February 1878. I was walking over a wide plain alone. And suddenly I fancied light, cautious footsteps behind my back.... Some one was walking after me.
It would be a great sorrow if I should learn through you, Jungfrau Barbara, that here, too, it would have been advisable to arm myself against wanton deception. True, the French chansons you sing sound unlike our sincere German songs. And then you, the fairest of the fair, can choose at will among men; but the Emperor's service carries me from one country to another. I am only a poor nobleman "
"Surely," he writes of sunset seen near the Jungfrau, "if beauty be an object of worship, these glorious mountains with rounded shoulders of the purest white, snow-crested, and star-gemmed, were well calculated to excite sentiments of adoration."
It is in one of Tourgenieff's own prose-poems that the dialogue of the Jungfrau and the Finsteraarhorn across the centuries is darkly shadowed. The evening of the world falls upon spirits sensitive to its intimations as the diurnal twilight falls upon the hearts of travellers descending a broad stream near the Ocean and the haven of its unending rest. Cf. Philostratus, Life of Appollonius.
Oh, indeed yes; when you talk about your poor Roman and Egyptian day-before-yesterday antiquities, you should choose a time when the hoary Shadow Face of the Jungfrau is not by. It antedates all antiquities known or imaginable; for it was here the world itself created the theater of future antiquities.
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