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French Switzerland came next in order, was actually fixed upon, and for a time held the field. Lausanne was the city first suggested and nearly chosen. There was a good deal to be said for it on its own merits, and in its suburb, Ouchy, the treaty had been drawn up which terminated the war between Italy and Turkey.
She invited me to dinner at Ouchy, near Lausanne, where she then resided. I was seated by her side, and having come from Paris she questioned me on all passing there, what people were saying, what occupied the public and the salons. I spoke of an article by Chateaubriand in the Mercure, which attracted attention at the moment of my leaving.
She boasted of her old-fashioned prejudices, talked a good deal of being a grandmother, and made a show of reaching up to tap Owen's shoulder, though his height was little more than hers. She was full of a small pale prattle about the people she had seen at Ouchy, as to whom she had the minute statistical information of a gazetteer, without any apparent sense of personal differences.
And at Ouchy with a backward wave of my arm I silently motioned her from me, for I was dumb, and weak, and I left her there: and all that long night her power was upon me, for she is stronger than gravitation, which may be evaded, and than all the forces of life combined, and the sun and the moon and the earth are nothing compared with her; and when she was gone from me I was like a fish in the air, or like a bird in the deep, for she is my element of life, made for me to breathe in, and I drown without her: so that for many hours I lay on that grassy hill leading to the burial-ground outside Ouchy that night, like a man sore wounded, biting the grass.
"You don't mean ?" She laid her hand on his arm and looked gravely into his handsome eyes. "I mean that when your grandmother gets back from Ouchy I shall speak to her " "You'll speak to her...?" "Yes; if only you'll promise to give me time " "Time for her to send for Adelaide Painter?" "Oh, she'll undoubtedly send for Adelaide Painter!"
It was at this time about four o'clock. The usual time of dinner for travellers in Switzerland is five. Mrs. Holiday, observing that the hotel at Ouchy was very prettily situated, close to the water, and recollecting that her husband had said that it resembled in its character a castle of the middle ages, concluded that she would like as well to take rooms there.
But YOU'RE an Everard I told Anna last spring in London that one sees that instantly"... She wandered off to the cooking and the service of the hotel at Ouchy. She attached great importance to gastronomic details and to the manners of hotel servants. There, too, there was a falling off, she said. "I don t know, of course; but people say it's owing to the Americans.
About an hour and a half brought us to Ouchy, the point where passengers land to take the omnibus to Lausanne. The ascent from Ouchy to Lausanne is a mile and a half, which it took the omnibus nearly half an hour to accomplish.
There were any number of trains by this funiculaire at every half-hour indeed and any one taking this route could reach either Lausanne or Ouchy after a very few minutes' journey up or down. To extend my investigation on that side was of obvious and pressing importance.
Of course I can't make Madame de Chantelle see this; but I can remind her that, with his character his big rushes of impulse, his odd intervals of ebb and apathy she may drive him into some worse blunder if she thwarts him now." "And you mean to break the news to her as soon as she comes back from Ouchy?" "As soon as I see my way to it. She knows the girl and likes her: that's our hope.
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