Excerpt from Sights and Insights, Vol. 2: Patience Strong's Story of Over the WayEdith 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 dépendance 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 knock ing at my door, hat in hand, late in the afternoon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.