 Daisy Miller by Henry James Read by Penelope Rawlins for Naxos Audiobooks Part One At the little town of Vervais in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel. There are indeed many hotels, for the entertainment of tourists is the business of the place, which, as many travellers will remember, is seated upon the edge of a remarkably blue lake. A lake that it behoves every tourist a visit. The shore of the lake presents an unbroken array of establishments of this order of every category, from the grand hotel of the newest fashion, with a chalk white front, 100 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. Sample complete. Ready to continue?