" So saying, he raised a whistle to his lips, and blew a loud call; and, as this was unanswered, another still louder. The manager, however, who stood in the wings, nodded to her to proceed, and the orchestra commenced the first few bars of the music. Books! Aren't they wonderful?" The blind alley of life stretching out before her, with its secret doorways and hidden menaces; and she was unconcerned. “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. But this chap is good wine yet. Apparently he had projected beyond his table some hypnotic thought, for it had held him all through the dining hour. It did seem in so many ways exactly what Ramage said it was—the sensible thing to do. ‘Lord in heaven, did I do that?’ exclaimed Gerald remorsefully.
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