“I don’t see quite what your game is, Vee,
but I suppose you’ve got a game on somewhere. “Why, among other things, did I put my knuckles in his neck—deliberately to
hurt him?”
She tried to sound the humorous note. Perhaps an hour later he would begin again. Ann Veronica brought her luggage in a cab from the hotel; she tipped the hotel
porter sixpence and overpaid the cabman eighteenpence, unpacked some of her
books and possessions, and so made the room a little homelike, and then sat
down in a by no means uncomfortable arm-chair before the fire. This, then, must be the person whom
he had seen spring upon the western platform at the time of the collision between
the boats. She assumed with a kind of mesmeric
force all the propositions that Ann Veronica wanted her to define. There was no railway beyond Frutigen in
those days; they sent their baggage by post to Kandersteg, and walked along the
mule path to the left of the stream to that queer hollow among the precipices,
Blau See, where the petrifying branches of trees lie in the blue deeps of an icy
lake, and pine-trees clamber among gigantic boulders. Here's your health in a bumper,
and wishing you a better husband than your first. Wild will hang me. The uproar was tremendous—men yelling—
dogs barking,—but above all was heard the stentorian voice of Jonathan, urging
them on.
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