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Excerpt from The Wife's Messengers
After a pleasant voyage, which he described with enthusiasm to the beloved ones at home, comparing the ship to an isolated world of ease and enjoyment mov ing between the two continents, Paul landed on the other side and it was in London - almost the very first point of his journey - that he met and fell in love with a beautiful orphan, named Alice Talbot, who lived with her uncle and aunt a short distance from the city, in one of the suburbs, which is far enough for country life, and yet near enough to make London of daily use. 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.
