This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill Lausanne. The end of people and of things always arrives, I fancy, after a cleverly combined diminution of forces, prepared for us without our knowing it. The end of the St. Gervais season came. People kept going away and, every day, the pretty little Square around the Church, the roads and even the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill Lausanne. The end of people and of things always arrives, I fancy, after a cleverly combined diminution of forces, prepared for us without our knowing it. The end of the St. Gervais season came. People kept going away and, every day, the pretty little Square around the Church, the roads and even the Prarion became more and more silent, and this silence affected us. Ah, in spite of his insect-like proportions, his ugliness and his pettiness, man holds a certain place in Nature. His radiating soul produces the invisible, and that invisible creates, peoples, and warms. We had been imagining that we should like to plant our tent at the foot of these beautiful Alps and that it would be very difficult for us to leave them and now, gradually, we began to look towards the plain. The admiration and the affection that we had felt, thanks to the mountains, had been lived and nothing could now reanimate those feelings. It is like this with certain loves, passions and enthusiasms, and indeed with all the sentiments which are the flowers of Life. Sentiments which are the fruits, such as friendship, are the only ones to endure to the end. We, in our turn, went away and without feeling that great grief which we had expected to feel. We were even rather glad to find once more, on arriving at the Hotel Beau Rivage of Geneva, the luxury and the people to which one is accustomed in large hotels. During dinner I felt my duality in a curious way. The " other one" felt almost pained by this restaurant picture, with people dressed up in evening uniform, women all decked out in their finery, and floods of electric light. It all seemed horribly vulgar and jimcrack compared with the other place where the air was so pure, the stars so big and so friendly and where the...
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