Three Vassar Girls in England: A Holiday Excursion of Three College Girls Through the Mother Country
Lizzie W. Champney
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(Forgotten Books, Dec. 3, 2017)
Excerpt from Three Vassar Girls in England: A Holiday Excursion of Three College Girls Through the Mother CountryND in spite of all this I do not like the English! Barbara Atchison I You surely do not mean that you do not like your cousins. No, I except them. They seem to me almost like Americans; but English people typically and collectively impress me as the most antipathetic, - the most disagreeable on the face of the earth.And yet, remarked Cecilia Boylston, the eldest of the three, a dignified girl with a face as pure and clear as her pebble eye glasses, you were in raptures a moment ago over this fascinating little country-house, with the ivy clinging to the stepped gables, making such a rich contrast to the red brick, over this cozy alcoved window, with that wonderful View, over all the quaint ways of the household, and the Chippendale furniture. What is it that strikes the false note?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.