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While all this noise and hurry were rife a travellers,

there, too, silently asserated house half-a-dozen paces

re the in upon them, were the dead travellers found upon the o, still standing in the corner

with her baby at her breast; the man who had frozen with his ar it with his dry lips

after years and years An awful coether! A

wild destiny for that mother to have foreseen! 'Surrounded by so many

and such companions upon whom I never looked, and never shall look,

I and ether inseparable, on the Great Saint

Bernard, outlasting generations ill come to see us, and will never

know our na travellers thought little or nothing of the dead just then

They thought

theed fro down as the crowd of an to be bestowed in the

stable, they hurried shivering up the steps and into the building There

was a s up froerie of wild anie stone piers, great staircases, and thick walls

pierced with sainst the mountain

storloo-rooms within, intensely cold, but clean and hospitably prepared