about ten o'clock
He said there was more seduction in the Protestant than in the Catholic cantons , because the confessional protected the girls . I wonder why it does n't protect married women in France and Spain ? This gentleman said that among the poorer peasants in the Valais , it was common for the brothers in a family to cast lots to determine which of them should have the coveted privilege of marrying , and his brethren -- doomed bachelors -- heroically banded themselves together to help support the new family . We left Zermatt in a wagon -- and in a rain-storm , too -- for St. Nicholas about ten o'clock one morning . Again we passed between those grass-clad prodigious cliffs , specked with wee dwellings peeping over at us from velvety green walls ten and twelve hundred feet high . It did not seem possible that the imaginary chamois even could climb those precipices . Lovers on opposite cliffs probably kiss through a spy-glass , and correspond with a rifle .