Have you been away from Morningside
Park?”
“I’m not interrupting you?”
“You are. They’ll face facts as
facts, and understand. Lucy? Come
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on out. Let us have no more of this
humbug. “One day,” he resumed, “we will start off early and come down into
Kandersteg and up these zigzags and here and here, and so past this Daubensee
to a tiny inn—it won’t be busy yet, though; we may get it all to ourselves—on
the brim of the steepest zigzag you can imagine, thousands of feet of zigzag; and
you will sit and eat lunch with me and look out across the Rhone Valley and over
blue distances beyond blue distances to the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa and a
long regiment of sunny, snowy mountains. I tell you this child would have been strangled. For his own part he could not sufficiently admire the pluck of this
lady, who, notwithstanding all that she had been through, had chosen to appear
this evening rather than break her engagement. ”
He referred to a sheet of paper by his side.
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