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Updated: October 5, 2025
Mr Pontifex's last couplet gave him a lot of trouble, and nearly every word has been erased and rewritten once at least. In the visitors' book at the Montanvert, however, he must have been obliged to commit himself definitely to one reading or another.
I was disappointed in the High Alps, they left me cold; and after visiting the points of view Turner had taken drawings from, we went up to the Montanvert, where Ruskin wished me to paint for him a wreath of Alpine rose.
It is from the Montanvert that this object is to be perceived.
This idiot glared at us, and said: "You don't need guides and porters to go to the Montanvert." "What do we need, then?" "Such as YOU? an ambulance!" I was so stung by this brutal remark that I took my custom elsewhere. Betimes, next morning, we had reached an altitude of five thousand feet above the level of the sea. Here we camped and breakfasted.
I am quite well, and very comfortable sitting on Joseph's knapsack laid on the stone. The fog is about as thick as that of London in November, only white; and I see nothing near me but fields of dampish snow with black stones in it." And then: "MONTANVERT, August 22. "I cannot say that on the whole the aiguilles have treated me well.
"That earthly paradise of the Montanvert was far from us, where I had been able in less time than it would take to walk over a quadrille, to expose her to death, to save her afterward, and finally to say to her 'I love you! Passion in drawing-rooms is not allowed those free, dramatic ways; flowers fade in the candle-light; the oppressive atmosphere of balls and fetes stifles the heart, so ready to dilate in pure mountain air.
The road to the Montanvert is a broad and easy bridle-path, which, after leaving the valley, traverses a pine-forest in its ascent and becomes in places somewhat steep. Here and there a zigzag is found necessary, and in several places there are tracks of avalanches.
You will go to Switzerland, and return to the Montanvert, where you met me for the first time, which I shall always remember, if you, yourself, do not make it painful for me to do so. You will obey me, Octave, will you not? Give me this proof of your esteem and friendship.
While at the Montanvert on their first excursion, they could turn their eyes from the sea of ice to the tree-clad slopes behind them, and at the Chapeau could gaze on a splendid stretch of the Vale of Chamouni to refresh their eyes when wearied with the rugged cataract of the Glacier des Bois; but as they advanced slowly up into the icy solitudes, all traces of the softer world were lost to view.
She pointed up and off, but in the wrong direction. "Oh, no, Phronsie, that isn't the way we are going. The Montanvert is over here, child," corrected Jasper.
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