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"Granddaughter, fiddlesticks! They are not Poles, those Grabowskis, but impostors. Their real name is is " Davos started. "What, you have met them?" "Yes, the stupid father, the odious uncle, the fair Constantia what a meek saint! and that diabolical Japanese, who plays the piano like a house on fire." Tears came to the eyes of Marco Davos. "Did they I mean, did she take you in, too?"
In most parts of Switzerland there is a law by which everyone has right of way everywhere where the snow lies so long as it is not enclosed ground. This was brought home to my family rather vividly, when we lived at Davos, by a shooting gallery being set up on our land in front of our house. We had no power to prevent it and there it remained for the winter.
The course was dubbed "Klosters," after the famous run at Davos, for the school-girl of to-day is not happy unless she can give a nickname to her haunts, and it was sufficiently steep to be exciting, though not dangerous.
With his mixed blood, Hungarian and Italian, Marco Davos' performance of romantic composers was irresistible; in it there was something of Pachmann's wayward grace and Paderewski's plangency, but with an added infusion of gypsy wildness which evoked for old concert-goers memories of Liszt the brilliant rhapsodist.
It may be doubted whether David Carlyon really realized his own serious condition until the physician's opinion had been made known to him. "Advanced phthisis," he muttered thoughtfully. But when Dr. Broderick proceeded to recommend Mentone or some southern health resort for the winter, he had turned upon him almost abruptly. "I suppose Davos Platz would not cure me?" he asked.
Claire never admitted even to herself that Maurice lied, but she took unusual pains to prevent his ever being pushed beyond a certain point. It was Claire who had managed the journey to Davos in the teeth of opposition; but it was Maurice who would have no other guide than Mr. Roper, a splendid army coach picked up at a billiard room in a hotel.
Mortiz-Kulm, and often after, they met Canon Wenham of Mortlake, with whom both Sir Richard and Lady Burton had long been on terms of friendship. At Maloja, July 1890. At Davos they found John Addington Symonds, and at Maloja Mr. Francis R. S. Wyllie, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Welldon and Mr. and Mrs. Mrs.
They sent my mother to Davos Platz there seemed hope for her and she died away from us all; and one of my sisters died at Mentone too. But I do not intend to follow their example;" and then he had risen from his chair and put an end to the interview. Nothing would induce him to go abroad.
Now if I say to him: 'I am going out to Davos this winter, so anything in the travelling line would be acceptable, he might give me a dressing-bag with gold-mounted fittings, but, on the other hand, he might give me Baedeker's Switzerland, or 'Skiing without Tears, or something of that sort." "He would be more likely to say: 'She'll be going to lots of dances, a fan will be sure to be useful."
Gurnet's house was like an eye, or a pair of super-vigilant eyes, stationed between Davos Dorf and Davos Platz. It stood, a small brown chalet, perched high above the lake.
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