The Crown Jewels of Jerusalem
Серия: Dr. Eszterhazy, книга 5
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The Spa at Gross-Kroplets is not one of the fashionable watering places of the Triune Monarchy, else Doctor Eszterhazy would scarcely have been found there. Nor, as he did not practice the curiously fashionable habit of abusing his liver for forty-nine weeks of the year, did he ever feel the need of medicating it with the waters of mineral springs for the remaining three.
It was entirely for the purpose of making a scientific analysis of those waters — or, specifically, those at Gross-Kroplets — which had brought him from his house in Bella, Imperial Capital of Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania, to the comparatively small resort high in the Rhiphaean Alps. Two moderately large and three moderately small (five, if one counts the House of the Double-Eagle) hotels served to provide room and board for visitors to the Spa; and although all were privately owned, the Spring itself had been the property of the Royal and Imperial House of Hohenschtupfen since the Capitulations of 1593 and was under the management of the Ministry of the Privy Purse.
