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Chapter 10 I spent the following day roaming through the valley . I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron , which take their rise in a glacier , that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley . The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me ; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me ; a few shattered pines were scattered around ; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence - chamber of imperial Nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment , the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking , reverberated along the mountains , of the accumulated ice , which , through the silent working of immutable laws , was ever and anon rent and torn , as if it had been but a plaything in their hands . These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving . They elevated me from all littleness of feeling , and although they did not remove my grief , they subdued and tranquillised it . In some degree , also , they diverted my mind from the thoughts over which it had brooded for the last month . I retired to rest at night ; my slumbers , as it were , waited on and ministered to by the assemblance of grand shapes which I had contemplated during the day . They congregated round me ; the unstained snowy mountain - top , the glittering pinnacle , the pine woods , and ragged bare ravine , the eagle , soaring amidst the clouds — they all gathered round me and bade me be at peace . Where had they fled when the next morning I awoke ? All of soul - inspiriting fled with sleep , and dark melancholy clouded every thought . The rain was pouring in torrents , and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains , so that I even saw not the faces of those mighty friends . Still I would penetrate their misty veil and seek them in their cloudy retreats . What were rain and storm to me ? My mule was brought to the door , and I resolved to ascend to the summit of Montanvert . I remembered the effect that the view of the tremendous and ever - moving glacier had produced upon my mind when I first saw it . It had then filled me with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy . The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life . I determined to go without a guide , for I was well acquainted with the path , and the presence of another would destroy the solitary grandeur of the scene .
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