High-Ways and by-Ways, or Tales of the Roadside, Vol. 1 of 2: Picked Up in the French Provinces (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Excerpt from High-Ways and by-Ways, or Tales of the Roadside, Vol. 1 of 2: Picked Up in the French Provinces

Can we 'expect to know a people by such flying association? 'is it among travellers, every one of whom might on'his journey doubt his own identity - from the merchant counting on his fingers in the corner, - from the lover whose thoughts fly back in a direct ratio with the haste of his advance, and whose eyes are so full of his absent mistress, that he thinks he sees her in the gruff old lady, feeding her parrot on the seat before him - is it from the friend.

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