Excerpt from Sights and Insights, Vol. 2: Patience Strong's Story of Over the Way
...We had to change our rooms the next day after. The hotel was crowded, - it was high season at Lugano; and we had only been put in "tempery" like dear Aunt Hetty Maria's teeth. Numbers 90 and 92 were engaged for an English family, that was coming in a couple of days.
Mrs. Regis could keep her apartments, and she was well satisfied. They were high, corner rooms, overlooking the lake and garden. We must see what could be done in the "dependance." Edith and Margaret were sorry to be in different houses; but some of us must stay in the fascinating old monastery," they said. "We mean to explore it all over."
The dependance was directly upon the lake; its pretty little balconies overhung the water; but it was a damp old building, actually falling into decay in the rear, unused part; and these rooms over the water were more romantic than salubrious, I feared; though they say there is never any fever at Lugano.
Stephen Holabird interested himself for us. He ran up and down, interpreted, reported, suggested. At last he came knocking at my door, hat in hand, late in the afternoon.
"Miss Strong," he said, hurriedly, "if you just want rooms in Paradise, come and see! It's opened to-day; Monsieur B - is just going over now with a German countess.
We picked up our parasols. We walked through the garden and round a turn of the road, over here to "Beau Sejour." It is a palace-dependance of the monastery hotel.
Recently bought, and the repairs just finishing, there had been question about opening it quite at present.
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