In the village there are numerous hotels and boarding-houses, capable of suiting the pockets and the wishes of all the middling, and even of the lower classes of society:--but there are three or four principal houses,--and especially two, reserved for the aristocracy; and here all the _elite_ of the visitors congregate. We wealthy English may laugh at the moderate expense for which this kind of thing can be done in France, but we are not apt to grumble at it when we find it suit our pockets; and, therefore, take with you at once the description of the kind of fare you are likely to meet with here, and the amount of damage it will do to your fortune. In these large hotels, then, which are commodious houses, a vast number of bedrooms are provided for the guests, and two good reception-rooms; besides an immense _salle-a-manger_. Some sixty or a hundred guests can be accommodated in each house, and can sit down at table together. Breakfast is served between nine and ten,--and a glorious breakfast it is! All kinds of good things, which an old _artiste_ from Paris comes down for the season to cook: ending with fruits of many kinds and _cafe-au-lait_--that Continental beverage which John Bull can no more imitate than he can the wines of the Rhone or the Rhine:--in short, 'tis as good a breakfast as they could put on the table at Verey's. Dinner is ready at six, and maintains its proper superiority over the breakfast, both in the number of dishes and in the length of its service. The wines are good, and the fruits delicious, for they all come from Clermont--whence many a wagon-load of comestibles is tugged weekly over the mountains to satisfy the exigencies of the fastidious invalids! Well: they give you these two glorious spreads, your room, your light, your linen, and your attendance, for _five francs a-day_.