Throughout the descent he overwhelmed him with attentions, sustaining him with his arm when the descent became too abrupt.

So soon as they had made their way to a foot-path, they resumed their conversation.

Abel was very clear-sighted, and, like Socrates, as we said before, he was master in the art of interrogating.

He turned the conversation to erratic glaciers and boulders.

M.Moriaz was enchanted with his manner of asking questions; as Professor of the College of France, he was well pleased to owe his life to an intelligent man.
As they traversed a pine-forest, they heard a voice hailing them, and they were shortly joined by a guide whom Mlle.