Excerpt from Tales From "Blackwood," Vol. 1 The charms of which had not been deadened by pre vions anticipations, that I resolved to remain there until I had mastered every detail, and knew the place by heart. About the Publisher 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.

Excerpt from Tales From Blackwood, Vol. 1: New Series I have tried both Worlds, Old and New; and so far as faults and follies go, I don't think there is much to choose between them. My present busi ness is with the faults and follies of my own coun try, with which I feel more especially competent to deal, and which I am most desirous to see corrected and reformed. Having violently reacted from them myself, it is only natural that I should be consumed by the fervour of proselytism, and should, regardless of consequences, exhibit myself as a warning, if need be, to those I wish to serve. When I first appeared upon the social horizon, I may say with out vanity that I was the kind of girl who in Lon don would have been called a stunner, a scream er, and who in New York is sometimes described as a bouncer. About the Publisher 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.

Excerpt from Tales From "Blackwood," Vol. 1: Being the Most Famous Series of Stories Ever Published, Especially Selected From That Celebrated English Publication Yes, Elsa, he said, when he had industriously picked up the last fragment of the last saucer and had placed it on the deal table, - yes, Elsa: it is all very well to preach Patience, but I have been patient - for two whole years. And then, you see, Impatience is apt to take its turn. Never mind the cups and saucers - I'll make that all right With the father; and he is no model of Patience, any way. About the Publisher 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.

Excerpt from Tales From Blackwood, Vol. 1 of 12 In Natolia, Hamet ben Hamet was a proverb for happiness. The pilgrims passing from Constanti nople to Damascus used to stop at the foot of the mountain on which his palace stood, bright as a new-born star, and wonder at the good fortune which had fixed a son of earth in a spot so like Paradise. The people of the country, to a man, declared that smce the prosperous days of the wisest of the wise, even Solomon ben David, there had not been prince, pasha, or padisha, who could compare with the fortune of the mighty Hadgi. They even went so far as to assert, that though he had four wives, he kept his household without an open quarrel; that his two daughters had never fled with Spahi or J anizary, and that his son had never expressed any known objection to his father's living even a dozen years longer. Still the illustrious Hadgi was discontented, What is human happi ness, he exclaimed, but like the bubble in the cup of sherbet, no sooner seen than swallowed, and no sooner swallowed than forgotten? Or like the singing of the bullet from the musket, a perilous pleasure'which a wise man would let pass by him, and none but a fool would desire to catch? The earth is a dungeon, from which the sooner a man gets free the better. Life is a struggle in a stormy sea; every man first tries to sink his neighbour. About the Publisher 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.

Excerpt from Tales From Blackwood: Being the Most Famous Series of Stories Ever Published T the close of February 1848 I was in berg. My original intention had been to pass a couple of days there, on my way to Munich that being, I thought, as much time as could reasonably be spared for so small a city, beckoned as my foot steps were to the Bavarian Athens, of whose glories of ancient art and German Renaissance I had formed expectations the most exaggerated - expectations fatal to any perfect enjoyment, and certain to be disap pointed, however great the actual merit of Munich might be. But after two days at Nuremberg, I was so deeply interested in its antique sequestered life. About the Publisher 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.

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