Almost from the first moment of my marbsp;a faint large noi, like a distant surf, had filled my ears.
Sometimes I was tempted to think it the voibsp;of a neighb waterfall, and sometimes a subjective result of the utter stillness of the hill.
But as I tinued to advanbsp;the noi incread, and became like the hissing of an enormous tea-urn, and at the same time breaths of cool air began to reabsp;me from the dire of the summit.
At length I uood.
It was blowing stiffly from the south upon the other slope of the Lozère, and every step that I took I was drawing nearer to the wind.
Although it had been long desired, it was quite uedly at last that my eyes ro above the summit.
A step that emed no way more decisive than many other steps that had preceded it—and, ‘like stout Cortez when, with eagle eyes, he stared on the Pacifibsp;I took posssion, in my own name, of a new quarter of the world.
For behold, instead of the gross turf rampart I had been mounting for so long, a view into the hazy air of heaven, and a land of intricate blue hills below my feet.
Almost from the first moment of my marbsp;a faint large noi, like a distant surf, had filled my ears.
Sometimes I was tempted to think it the voibsp;of a neighb waterfall, and sometimes a subjective result of the utter stillness of the hill.
But as I tinued to advanbsp;the noi incread, and became like the hissing of an enormous tea-urn, and at the same time breaths of cool air began to reabsp;me from the dire of the summit.
At length I uood.
It was blowing stiffly from the south upon the other slope of the Lozère, and every step that I took I was drawing nearer to the wind.
Although it had been long desired, it was quite uedly at last that my eyes ro above the summit.
A step that emed no way more decisive than many other steps that had preceded it—and, ‘like stout Cortez when, with eagle eyes, he stared on the Pacifibsp;I took posssion, in my own name, of a new quarter of the world.
For behold, instead of the gross turf rampart I had been mounting for so long, a view into the hazy air of heaven, and a land of intricate blue hills below my feet.