The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer: Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar : with an Autobiographical Memoir of the Author |
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Page xiv
... heard that my mother had given him secret directions to treat me with especial indulgence , as a child whose earliest impulses had received a wrong bias . He certainly behaved to me with great kindness and delicacy , and showed great ...
... heard that my mother had given him secret directions to treat me with especial indulgence , as a child whose earliest impulses had received a wrong bias . He certainly behaved to me with great kindness and delicacy , and showed great ...
Page xv
... heard of any one who lso had attained celebrity by travel , she would grieve to think us that she was debarred by her sex from the happiness of Sat ever crossing the sea and exploring strange lands . Often she felt an inclination to ...
... heard of any one who lso had attained celebrity by travel , she would grieve to think us that she was debarred by her sex from the happiness of Sat ever crossing the sea and exploring strange lands . Often she felt an inclination to ...
Page xvii
... heard concerning me from other people . I added that it was out of my power either to see him or to write to him again , but that if another suitor presented himself and was accepted by my mother , I would at once inform T- the ...
... heard concerning me from other people . I added that it was out of my power either to see him or to write to him again , but that if another suitor presented himself and was accepted by my mother , I would at once inform T- the ...
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... heard from an indiscreetly- communicative nurse that her dissolution was daily expect- ed , this intelligence produced such a quieting effect that she sank into a deep slumber , and the crisis of her disease was happily passed . Ida's ...
... heard from an indiscreetly- communicative nurse that her dissolution was daily expect- ed , this intelligence produced such a quieting effect that she sank into a deep slumber , and the crisis of her disease was happily passed . Ida's ...
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... heard of my arrival in Holland he came to Amsterdam to invite me to make a short tour through his native country . We began by an excursion to Utrecht , where a great Students ' Festival happened to be going on when we ar- rived . The ...
... heard of my arrival in Holland he came to Amsterdam to invite me to make a short tour through his native country . We began by an excursion to Utrecht , where a great Students ' Festival happened to be going on when we ar- rived . The ...
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Page 146 - Some let these tails hang all about their heads, while others unite them into bands or bunches, so as to cover the whole head. This kind of head-dress takes a good deal of time in preparing, particularly in the cases of the richer Malagaseys, who have their hair plaited into an infinite number of these little tails. On the head of one of these native beauties I counted above sixty plaits. The good lady's slaves must have had a good day's work in bringing them to the right pitch of perfection. On...