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After breakfast, that next morning in Chamonix, we went out in the yard and watched the gangs of excursioning tourists arriving and departing with their mules2 and guides and porters; then we took a look through the telescope at the snowy hump of Mont Blanc. It was brilliant with sunshine, and the vast smooth bulge3 seemed hardly five hundred yards away. With the naked eye we could dimly make out the house at the Pierre Pointue, which is located by the side of the great glacier4, and is more than three thousand feet above the level of the valley; but with the telescope we could see all its details. While I looked, a woman rode by the house on a mule1, and I saw her with sharp distinctness; I could have described her dress. I saw her nod to the people of the house, and rein5 up her mule, and put her hand up to shield her eyes from the sun. I was not used to telescopes; in fact, I had never looked through a good one before; it seemed incredible to me that this woman could be so far away. I was satisfied that I could see all these details with my naked eye; but when I tried it, that mule and those vivid people had wholly vanished, and the house itself was become small and vague. I tried the telescope again, and again everything was vivid. The strong black shadows of the mule and the woman were flung against the side of the house, and I saw the mule’s silhouette6 wave its ears.
The telescopulist—or the telescopulariat—I do not know which is right—said a party were making a grand ascent7, and would come in sight on the remote upper heights, presently; so we waited to observe this performance. Presently I had a superb idea. I wanted to stand with a party on the summit of Mont Blanc, merely to be able to say I had done it, and I believed the telescope could set me within seven feet of the uppermost man. The telescoper assured me that it could. I then asked him how much I owed him for as far as I had got? He said, one franc. I asked him how much it would cost to make the entire ascent? Three francs. I at once
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glacier
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ascent
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slanting
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unison
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crests
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colossal
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gliding
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blots
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| 污渍( blot的名词复数 ); 墨水渍; 错事; 污点 | |
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flirt
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pretext
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asylum
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ascending
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enjoyments
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exultation
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frightful
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adventurous
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dissuade
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brass
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pointed
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artillery
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repel
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undertaking
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remarkable
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vigor
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corpses
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corpse
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isolated
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twilight
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refreshment
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lithograph
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| n.灾祸,灾难( calamity的名词复数 );不幸之事 | |
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