French 
word, and ought not, under any circumstances whatever, 
to be pronounced "Clickot." 

Then we went down to Derwentwater. It was a 
warm and clear twHighti Between the dark green Lines 
of the hedges we met maidens in white with scarlet 
opera-cloaks, coming home through the narrow lana 
Then we got into the open, and found the shores of the 
silver lake, and got into a boat and sailed out upon the 
still waters, so that we could face the  of a 
brilliant sunset. 

But aU that  of red and yeDow in the north- 
west was as nothing to the strange gradations of colour 
that appeared along the splendid range of mountain- 
peaks beyond the laka From the remote north round 
to the south-east they stretched like a mighty wall; 
and whereas near the gold and crimson of the sunset 
they were of a warm, roseate, and half-transparent 
purple, as they came along into the darker regions o 
the twilight they grew more and more cold in hue and 
harsh in outline. Up there in the north they had 
caught the magic colours so that they themselves 
seemed but light clouds of beautiful vapour ; but as 
the eye followed the line of twisted and mighty shapes, 
the rose-colour deepened into purple, the purple grew 
darker and more dark, and