I am glad and sorry that she depends so much on my letters for her comfort.

I am sending them now every day by the people who go down, for the diligence is stopped.

You may run the chance of missing one or two therefore.

I am quite well, and very comfortable--sitting on Joseph's knapsack laid on the stone.

The fog is about as thick as that of London in November,--only white; and I see nothing near me but fields of dampish snow with black stones in it." And then: "MONTANVERT, _August_ 22.
"I cannot say that on the whole the aiguilles have treated me well.
I went up Saturday, Monday and Tuesday to their feet, and never obtained audience until to-day, and then they retired at twelve o'clock; but I have got a most valuable memorandum." The parental view was put thus: GENEVA, _Monday, August_ 20, 1849.
"MY DEAREST JOHN, "I do not know if you have got all my letters, fully explaining to you in what way the want of a _single_ letter, on two occasions, did _so_ much mischief--made such havoc in our peace.