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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: 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
features that are much at variance with these suggestions:
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