A House-Hunter in Europe (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from A House-Hunter in Europe

It is no editorial we that is here employed: the pronoun refers to a family of two which had been mar ried about a couple of years, to a day. We are by no means to hold up our modest housekeeping experiences here as a model, - _indeed, I fear we shall too often prove only the horrible example; but we have thought they might have some small interest of novelty, and a value if only on this very ground of showing peo ple what to avoid if not what to imitate.

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Excerpt from A House-Hunter in Europe

In the next place, then - for the prejudice against going back to the beginning of the world to tell how it all came about is really too well founded, - in the next place, then, we landed at Cherbourg, - in the last days of July.

It is no "editorial we" that is here employed: the pronoun refers to a family of two which had been married about a couple of years, to a day. We are by no means to hold up our modest housekeeping experiences here as a model, - indeed, I fear we shall too often prove only "the horrible example;" but we have thought they might have some small interest of novelty, and a value if only on this very ground of showing people what to avoid if not what to imitate.

When we had spoken, before leaving home, of being gone two years, our friends in America had called it a long time, and we ourselves hardly believed in so much. But, in the sequel, our experiment extended its proportions to nearly five years instead of two.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This 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.