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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: "grand hotel" of the newest fashion, with a chalk-white front,
a hundred balconies, and a dozen flags flying from its roof,
to the little Swiss pension of an elder day, with its name
inscribed in German-looking lettering upon a pink or yellow
wall and an awkward summerhouse in the angle of the garden.
One of the hotels at Vevey, however, is famous, even classical,
being distinguished from many of its upstart neighbors
by an air both of luxury and of maturity. In this region,
in the month of June, American travelers are extremely numerous;
it may be said, indeed, that Vevey assumes at this period
some of the characteristics of an American watering place.
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