James Henry. Daisy Miller

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT, SAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, and AP English Test Preparation.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 chalkwhite
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.