Identifier: threevassargirls04cham (find matches)
Title: Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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al at Valeries home. Valerie felt a sense of almost personalacquaintance with each of these silent personages, and she wasimpatient to introduce Elsie to them, and especially to her favoriteArthur of England, for in this statue the sculptor had fully realizedthe ideal of Tennyson — Thou art the highest and most human too. Whenever Valerie indulged in those day-dreams in regard to herown future which come to all young girls, she saw her knight — King Arthur, like a modern gentlemanOf stateliest port. There were no chamois or wolves near the chateau now, thoughthis was long a famous hunting-region, for Innsbruck is nestled in avalley from which the savage mountains rise so immediately andsharply that the transition from civilized to wild life is abrupt enoughto give rise to the saying that the wolves in the mountains look downthe chimneys of Innsbruck. Since her return Valerie had been a little homesick for Vassar andher dear friend Elsie. After the formal calls of greeting had been
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VALERIE. 97 exchanged with the old friends and neighbors, Valerie found it diffi-cult to satisfy herself with the monotonous life of the chateau. Shewas too sensible and unselfish a girl to allow this discontent to becomeapparent, and she took herself sharply to task for it. Of what goodis my education, she asked herself, if it makes me dissatisfied withmy condition in life? It ought on the contrary to afford resources.Surely I can find some means of continuing my studies and of occupy-ing my time in a profitable manner. Valeries mother interested herself in the thrifty German fashion inthe management of her household affairs, and did not require Valeriesassistance. She had no sisters, and her only brother Franz was awaywith the Austrian army. No wonder that life at the chateau was alittle dull. The count guessed the truth, and said to her one morning, What shall I do to distract my little girl ? Would you like in thesummer to visit your aunt at Chiemsee, where life is a trifle gayer

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