In Quest of the Quaint (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from In Quest of the Quaint At 4 a.m., August -, 189 -, Mrs. Ellersley felt decidedly ruffled as she stood on a pier at the mouth of the Restigouche River, surrounded by a group of young people, - her five nieces and a nephew of nineteen, - whom she had rashly undertaken to chaperon in their summer vacation, in which the present long-talked-of excursion to Gaspe was to be the principal feature. These young people, when planning their holiday tour, had rejoiced at having secured this bulwark of propriety, the least of whose virtues was that she was so unassertive that she could easily be overruled, and Mrs. Grundy thus be propitiated, while they virtually would have their own way. Blue, gray and irate were the countenances gazing out at the leaden-tinted water, the first hue caused by the chilling wind, the second by apprehension of the cheerless voyage in prospect, while the lack of amiability was owing to being summoned at "such an unearthly hour." Corporations have no souls, schedules are prepared with slight regard for the comfort of weak mortals, rising at an unreasonable hour and a hurried breakfast are not the best preparation for a voyage of sixteen to eighteen hours, and the promise of a better time-table for next year is poor consolation under such circumstances. 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.