Excerpt from At a Winter's FireIt was the toothed summit of the Aiguille Verte, now prosaically bathed in the light of the full moon, but to me, looking from that grim and passionless hollow, it stood for the white hand of God lifted in' menace to the evil spirits of the glen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.