avait pu, might hâve

12. 23. faire un faux pas qui lui avait tordu la cheville, made a misstep and sprained his ankle.

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7/ rai* deux jours de vivres dans son sac, he put food for two days in his knapsack.

and foll. Again the phenomenon of the Alpenglow, described in note to p. 11, 1. 15.

Alpes bernoises, Bernese Alps. Bernois is the adjective of Berne.

Gelés jusqu'aux moelles, frozen to the very

marrow.

son âme faible à le faire crier d'angoisse ;

literally: his spirit (so^ low (as) to make

him utter cries of anguish.

77 n'en pouvait douter, he could not doubt it.

In French : "douter de quelquechose,"

hence the en = of it.

poussa les verrous. There îs often no lock

in thèse Alpine cottages. Translate : he

pushed the bar of the boit into the socket. à peine libre, à peine = hardly. Translate :

No sooner was his soûl free than...

de par la vertu mystérieuse is more élégant

but équivalent in meaning to the simple

par la vertu... , through the mysterious

power. ..

dans la terre bénite, ground consecrated by

the Church, a cemetery. The regular par-

ticiple of bénir, to bless, is béni; only in

speaking of things consecrated by the

Catholic Church is the form bénit used. deux mille mètres. A meter is a little over

a yard (1.093), thus 2,000 meters = about

6,600 feet. The Schwarzenbach inn is lo-

cated (exactly) at 6,780 feet.

il n'osait seulement pas, hère seulement =

even. He did not even dare.

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