The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer: Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar : with an Autobiographical Memoir of the Author |
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... passing all his leisure hours with us , as if he belonged to the family . My five brothers were his friends , and my mother was so fond of him that she often called him her dear sixth son . ' He was at every party in our house , and ...
... passing all his leisure hours with us , as if he belonged to the family . My five brothers were his friends , and my mother was so fond of him that she often called him her dear sixth son . ' He was at every party in our house , and ...
Page xvii
... passed away without my seeing him , and with- out any change in my feelings or position . แ Walking one day with a friend of my mother's , I met Tby chance . We both stopped involuntarily , but for a long time neither he nor I could ...
... passed away without my seeing him , and with- out any change in my feelings or position . แ Walking one day with a friend of my mother's , I met Tby chance . We both stopped involuntarily , but for a long time neither he nor I could ...
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... passed . Ida's father had left a considerable fortune , and there was no lack of suitors for her hand . She refused every offer , however , and thereby increased the discomfort of her posi- tion at home , for her mother insisted more ...
... passed . Ida's father had left a considerable fortune , and there was no lack of suitors for her hand . She refused every offer , however , and thereby increased the discomfort of her posi- tion at home , for her mother insisted more ...
Page xxi
... passed the earliest years of his life . But fortune would nowhere smile upon him , and bitter poverty knocked at the door of the family . " Heaven only knows what I suffered during eighteen years of my married life ! " exclaims Ida ...
... passed the earliest years of his life . But fortune would nowhere smile upon him , and bitter poverty knocked at the door of the family . " Heaven only knows what I suffered during eighteen years of my married life ! " exclaims Ida ...
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... European to come among them . Though the savages opposed her farther advance , she passed forward through the primeval forest , among a population of man- A BIOGRAPHY OF IDA PFEIFFER . xxxi eaters , almost XXX A BIOGRAPHY OF IDA PFEIFFER .
... European to come among them . Though the savages opposed her farther advance , she passed forward through the primeval forest , among a population of man- A BIOGRAPHY OF IDA PFEIFFER . xxxi eaters , almost XXX A BIOGRAPHY OF IDA PFEIFFER .
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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...