In My Vicarage Garden 



stayed longer, and will now tell what reasons I 

 have for recommending the place. 



I said that I should recommend it to those who 

 are in search of quiet rest. It is not suited for 

 those who want to get in the midst of Alpine 

 scenery large tables d'hote, picnics, and full-dress 

 promenades ; they will find what they want better 

 at Luzern or Interlaken. But for those who, like 

 myself, wished for quiet and rest but not solitude, 

 I can imagine no place that will better suit their 

 wishes. The hotel is a small one, and during the 

 week I was there I suppose we were never above 

 twenty; but that is not all. While I was there 

 the company that I met was not only a small 

 company, but to me a very pleasant and very 

 sociable one. Of course, there was the inevitable 

 bride and bridegroom on their wedding tour, who 

 kept themselves apart, but I always rather like 

 their company if there are not too many of them ; 

 and I like to watch them as far as I can do so 

 without distressing them. The watching may 

 have in it some regret for the days that are no 

 more ; but it is a pleasure to see two young 

 people so thoroughly all in all to each other, that 

 mountains and flowers are very small items in 

 their happiness ; and it is pleasant to think that 

 to them, too, the mountains and flowers are 

 teachers, and that the time is not far off when to 

 them Piora and such like places will be a delight- 

 ful memory that will beckon them back again ; 

 and then, coming with fuller years and larger 

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