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Excerpt from Ten Days in Switzerland
After lunch we took the train to Lucerne, abandoning the route by Righi, as the weather was too thick for ascend ing the mountains or enjoying the sail on the lakes. We had to forego a look at that island on to which William Tell sprang, and so escaped the Austrian tyrant, Gesler. Perhaps we thus avoided spoiling a boyish imagination. But as so many boyish dreams must inevitably vanish into disappointment as years roll away, may be it was as well to have this one undisturbed. We were sorry to miss the ascent of Righi and the magnificent panorama from its summit, and also the famous views to be had in gliding over the'waters of Lakes Zurich and Lucerne; b1rt were so unfortunate as to have such bad weather as would have made the journey wholly useless.
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