The Spell of Switzerland
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Dole Nathan Haskell. The Spell of Switzerland
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. UNCLE AND NIECE
CHAPTER II. JUST A COMMON VOYAGE
CHAPTER III. A ROUNDABOUT TOUR
CHAPTER IV. HOME AT LAUSANNE
CHAPTER V. GIBBON AT LAUSANNE
CHAPTER VI. AROUND THE LAKE LEMAN
CHAPTER VII. A DIGRESSION AT CHILLON
CHAPTER VIII. LORD BYRON AND THE LAKE
CHAPTER IX. A PRINCESS AND THE SPELL OF THE LAKE
CHAPTER X. THE ALPS AND THE JURA
CHAPTER XI. THE SOUTHERN SHORE
CHAPTER XII. GENEVA
CHAPTER XIII. SUNRISE AND ROUSSEAU
CHAPTER XIV. THE CITY OF ROUSSEAU AND CALVIN
CHAPTER XV. FAMOUS FOLK
CHAPTER XVI. THE ASCENT OF THE DÔLE
CHAPTER XVII. A FORMER WORKER OF SPELLS
CHAPTER XVIII. TO CHAMONIX
CHAPTER XIX. A DETOUR TO ZERMATT
CHAPTER XX. THE VALE OF CHAMONIX
CHAPTER XXI. HANNIBAL IN SWITZERLAND
CHAPTER XXII. ZÜRICH
CHAPTER XXIII. AT ZÜRICH WITH THE PROFESSOR
CHAPTER XXIV. ON THE SHORES OF LAKE LUCERNE
CHAPTER XXV. LAUSANNE AGAIN
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I MUST confess, I did not approve of my niece and her husband’s plan of expatriating themselves for the sake of giving their only son and heir, and their twin girls, a correct accent in speaking French. But I had the grace to hold my tongue. I wonder if my wife would have been equally discreet – supposing I possessed such a helpmeet. Probably she would not have done so, even if I had; and probably also I should not, if she had. For the very fact of my having a wife would prove that I should be different from what I am.
There is an implication in this slight exhibition of boastfulness; but it is not subtle. Any one would see it instantly – namely, that I am a bachelor. A bachelor uncle whose niece takes it into her head to marry and raise a family, is as deeply bereaved as he would be were he her father. More so, indeed, for a father has his wife left to him…
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“It is called Lausanne stone. A good many of the old houses are built of it, and it came from just one quarry, now exhausted, I believe. It seems to have run very unevenly. Some of the big columns are badly eaten by the tooth of time; in others the details are just as fresh as if they had been done yesterday. Notice those quaint little figures kneeling and flying in the ogives of the portal; some are intact, others look as if mice had gnawed them. It is just the same with some of the fine old houses; one will be shabby and dilapidated; the very next will be well-preserved.”
“I think it is a rather attractive colour – that greyish-green with the bluish shadows.”
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