You can see Lago di Garda, Monte Brione, Monte Baldo wif ze ruin castle of ze Scaliger, Monte Maggiore, ze Altissimo di Nago, ze snow cover peak of Monte--" Mr.Jerymn Hilliard Jr.

stopped him with a gesture.
"That will do; I read Baedeker myself, and I saw them all the first night I came.

You must know at your age, Gustavo, that a man can't enjoy a view by himself; it takes two for that sort of thing--Yes, the truth is that I am lonely.

You can see yourself to what straits I am pushed for conversation.

If I had your command of language, now, I would talk to the German Alpine climbers." An idea flashed over Gustavo's features.
"Ah, zat is it! Why does not ze signore climb mountains?
Ver' helful; ver' diverting.