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CHAPTER XXXV
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A great and priceless thing is a new interest! How it takes possession of a man! how it clings to him, how it rides him! I strode onward1 from the Schwarenbach hostelry a changed man, a reorganized personality. I walked into a new world, I saw with new eyes. I had been looking aloft at the giant show-peaks only as things to be worshiped for their grandeur2 and magnitude, and their unspeakable grace of form; I looked up at them now, as also things to be conquered and climbed. My sense of their grandeur and their noble beauty was neither lost nor impaired3; I had gained a new interest in the mountains without losing the old ones. I followed the steep lines up, inch by inch, with my eye, and noted4 the possibility or impossibility of following them with my feet. When I saw a shining helmet of ice projecting above the clouds, I tried to imagine I saw files of black specks5 toiling6 up it roped together with a gossamer7 thread.
We skirted the lonely little lake called the Daubensee, and presently passed close by a glacier8 on the right—a thing like a great river frozen solid in its flow and broken square off like a wall at its mouth. I had never been so near a glacier before.
Here we came upon a new board shanty9, and found some men engaged in building a stone house; so the Schwarenbach was soon to have a rival. We bought a bottle or so of beer here; at any rate they called it beer, but I knew by the price that it was dissolved jewelry10, and I perceived by the taste that dissolved jewelry is not good stuff to drink.
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toiling
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gossamer
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glacier
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jewelry
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obliterate
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mellow
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mules
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mule
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dangling
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alpine
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conveyance
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syllable
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shriek
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flaked
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leisurely
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conceal
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cylinders
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rehabilitation
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perspiration
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inspection
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