Montreux . old age, this is where I should wish to spend excellent people ! What bright expressionson their faces! What charming views ! Whenone returns from Italy one almost melts into tearsat the sight of this corner of the world, in which somany good and honest people are still to be are no beggars here, no surly functionaries—nothing but smiling countenances! I thank Godfor having let me see so many beautiful sights. So he spoke, and he may speak for all of his day, indeed, the hotel-keeper and therailway engineer have laid their hands even uponthe heights. It is


Montreux . old age, this is where I should wish to spend excellent people ! What bright expressionson their faces! What charming views ! Whenone returns from Italy one almost melts into tearsat the sight of this corner of the world, in which somany good and honest people are still to be are no beggars here, no surly functionaries—nothing but smiling countenances! I thank Godfor having let me see so many beautiful sights. So he spoke, and he may speak for all of his day, indeed, the hotel-keeper and therailway engineer have laid their hands even uponthe heights. It is a pity, but there is more roomfor their handiwork than on the lake shore, andthey have hardly vulgarized the sites as doubt there are too many huge caravanseraisat Ghon, at Les Avants, at Caux, and on thesummit of the Rochers de Naye ; but a short walkfrom any one of them may still bring us to a placeof peace, where there is no sound except the song of THE SAVOY ALPS (WINTER) FROM THEROAD TO CAUX.


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