Chapter 26: A Mountain Idyl, or an Alpine Romance

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​​‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​​​​‌​​⁠"About eight months ago at last Easter-tide, and while the ladies of Sainte Marie were attending mass in their little chapel, situated about a quarter of a mile east from the road by which you descend to Italia, a traveller was carried into their midst more dead than alive, in a faint, having been struck down by the fell hand of disease suddenly, and while making his way over the mountains; the hi