Three Vassar girls in Switzerland . to need an extended account here. The mon-arch of mountains rose grandly before them,but Margaret was disappointed to find in thevalley a collection of fashionable hotels likethose of Interlaken, with all the modern con-veniences and inconveniences of porters, tele-phones, electric bells, and waiters in evening-dress. It has been well said, Mr. Walker remarked, man is only to be distinguished from hisvalet by his aristocratic expression of in-nocuous imbecility. Switzerland is indeed the summer-house of the world, Margaret replied, and this is just the place
Three Vassar girls in Switzerland . to need an extended account here. The mon-arch of mountains rose grandly before them,but Margaret was disappointed to find in thevalley a collection of fashionable hotels likethose of Interlaken, with all the modern con-veniences and inconveniences of porters, tele-phones, electric bells, and waiters in evening-dress. It has been well said, Mr. Walker remarked, man is only to be distinguished from hisvalet by his aristocratic expression of in-nocuous imbecility. Switzerland is indeed the summer-house of the world, Margaret replied, and this is just the place for Calumetand Hecla to appear again. That veryafternoon they caught a glimpse of thefamiliar face, which bore now the unfa-miliar name of the Baroness of Hohen-schlosse. The listless expression changed to amomentary gleam of pleasure as she rec-ognized Margaret. She dropped her hus-bands arm presently and came to the partof the veranda where Margaret was sitting. I am married, she said, with a little flash of pride. I am really a. BARONESS OF HOHENSCHLOSSE. baroness now. Mother has gone back to America. He did not want 2l8 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN SWITZERLAND. her to live with us. Im so sorry you didnt marry that handsomecount; then I could have seen you now and then. I foresee that Ishall be a little lonely, for he wants me to drop my American friends ;but if you were a countess he would let you visit me. Good by; he isbeckoning to me. And to think, Margaret said to herself with deep self-scorn, that when I was in Lucerne I was like that! The Judge manifested no desire to climbMont Blanc, though Mr. Walker assured himthat it was not so dangerous as the Matter-horn. It has been made this season, heinformed the Judge, by several Americans;and among others by Dr. John S. White ofNew York, and by his son, a Harvard student,whose intellectual and athletic prowess at theage of seventeen are alike remarkable. It hasalso been made by ladies. The first was aFrench woman, Mademoiselle dA
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