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220 view, or engage in some other equally important occupation that involved a five minutes' rest on a flat stone. Owing to these various delays it was nearly eight o'clock before we re-entered the Montenvers. Venetz met us at the door and bitterly bewailed the loss of the expedition, but we poured balm into his injured soul by promising that he should climb as much as he liked on the Grépon.