European Life And Manners In Familiar Letters To Friends PDF Download

Excerpt from European Life and Manners, Vol. 2 of 2: In Familiar Letters to Friends My Dear S : I am told, by an old friend, that you never looked better. He, I think, has grown old, but I did not perceive that his optical or mental perceptions were at all dimmed, and, therefore, I still imagine you as bright and gay, and intelligent and cheerful as ever. But you have not grown any better, that is certain, or you would not have suffered him to have come without so much as one line to your old friend. Very old, indeed, I am; an age I little expected I ever should reach; and when persons return and tell you, at home, how well I look, it only means that I am not, perhaps, quite so weather-beaten, and decayed, and moss-covered, as they expected to see me in the interval during which I have been out of their sight. I am told you had a strong desire that your husband should come out here, and bring his wife with him. You never proposed a wiser thing. I cannot say how happy it would make me, to meet you here. Why cannot you do it now? 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.