Now, James sends the dejected artist to his doom in order to test whether Mary Garland will, in fact, revere Roderick’s memory. And as Roderick wanders up the mountainous divide, the weather rapidly transforms into a raging tempest, which according to the locals is unprecedented. Thus provoking Mrs Hudson to cry, “Go and find him, go and find him!” (228) Despite this, Rowland convinces himself that “nothing was more probable than that Roderick had found shelter in a herdsman’s cabin.” (228) The following morning, the storm surrenders to tranquillity; nonetheless, Rowland still believes his friend has taken “refuge from an Alpine tempest…” (229) Although, Rowland mistakenly believes Roderick is safe, Mary Garland, in contrast, is concerned. This worry is given voice when she asks Mallet, “What made him start on a long walk so suddenly?” (229) Unable to answer her question without betraying the fight
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This auditory clue alerts Rowland to Singleton’s descent of the gorge, who, by this stage, has detected “a vague white mass” (231) that “lay tumbled upon the stones.” (231) Next, James conveys Rowland Mallet’s anguish for his dead friend by simply stating, “The thing that yesterday was his friend lay before him as the chance of the last breath had left it, and out of it Roderick’s face stared upward, open-eyed, at the sky.” (231) The violent tempest, nonetheless, has washed away any signs of Roderick’s fall – leaving the corpse in an unblemished condition – thereby prompting Singleton to remark, “He was a beautiful man!” (231) Before Singleton goes back to inform Mrs Hudson and Miss Garland; Rowland warns, “Remember…whom you will have to face.”(231) Whereupon, the watercolourist solemnly declares, “There was nothing I could ever do for him in life; I will do what I can now.”
This auditory clue alerts Rowland to Singleton’s descent of the gorge, who, by this stage, has detected “a vague white mass” (231) that “lay tumbled upon the stones.” (231) Next, James conveys Rowland Mallet’s anguish for his dead friend by simply stating, “The thing that yesterday was his friend lay before him as the chance of the last breath had left it, and out of it Roderick’s face stared upward, open-eyed, at the sky.” (231) The violent tempest, nonetheless, has washed away any signs of Roderick’s fall – leaving the corpse in an unblemished condition – thereby prompting Singleton to remark, “He was a beautiful man!” (231) Before Singleton goes back to inform Mrs Hudson and Miss Garland; Rowland warns, “Remember…whom you will have to face.”(231) Whereupon, the watercolourist solemnly declares, “There was nothing I could ever do for him in life; I will do what I can now.”