【英文原著类】DAISY MILLER A STUDY IN TWO PARTS(黛西·米勒).pdf

DAISY MILLER: A STUDY IN TWO PARTS
DAISY MILLER: A
STUDY IN TWO PARTS
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DAISY MILLER: A STUDY IN TWO PARTS
PART I
At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly
comfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment
of tourists is the business of the place, which, as many travelers will
remember, is seated upon the edge of a remarkably blue lake--a lake that it
behooves every tourist to visit. The shore of the lake presents an
unbroken array of establishments of this order, of every category, from the
"grand hotel" of the newest fashion, with a chalk-white front, a hundred
balconies, and a dozen flags flying from its roof, to the little Swiss pension
of an elder day, with its name inscribed in German-looking lettering upon
a pink or yellow wall and an awkward summerhouse in the angle of the
garden. One of the hotels at Vevey, however, is famous, even classical,
being distinguished from many of its upstart neighbors by an air both of
luxury and of maturity. In this region, in the month of June, American
travelers are extremely numerous; it may be said, indeed, that Vevey
assumes at this period some of the characteristics of an American watering
place. There are sights and sounds which evoke a vision, an echo, of
Newport and Saratoga. There is a flitting hither and thither of "stylish"
young girls, a rustling of muslin flounces, a rattle of dance music in the
morning hours, a sound of high-pitched voices at all times. You receive
an impression of these things at the excellent inn of the "Trois Couronnes"
and are transported in fancy to the Ocean House or to Congress Hall. But
at the "Trois Couronnes," it must be added, there are other features that are
much at variance with these suggestions: neat German waiters, who look
like secretaries of legation; Russian princesses sitting in the garden; little
Polish boys walking about held by the hand, with their governors; a view
of the sunny crest of t