Bubbles and Ballast, Being a Description of Life in Paris During the Brilliant Days of Empire

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Excerpt from Bubbles and Ballast, Being a Description of Life in Paris During the Brilliant Days of Empire: A Tour Through Belgium and Holland and a Sojourn in LondonTo embark for Europe, with heart pulsating to the emotions of hope and fear, but amid the confa sion and excitement on board the Java, bore up bravely when the time arrived for taking leave of my family escort. The English ¿ag was given to the breeze, anchors were weighed, guns fired, and down the harbor we steamed to the bar, where there was a detention of Several hours. Precisely at meridian the Shi p was finally Oil, and our strained eyes following the receding tugboat caught the last waving of handkerchiefs. AS we stood upon the deck with what were our hearts most burdened, and who would have laid bare for perusal the thousand emotions that filled them were there not visions prospective and retrospective of home - of the peaceful green land about to be exchanged for the dark, troubled sea and did there not come from the depths of those.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.