Some Portraits of Women

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Excerpt from Some Portraits of Women: Voyageuses Here on my table, within reach of my hand, lie fifteen or twenty volumes of manuscript, some thicker and some thinner, with the following titles: Provence, Italy, Spain, England, Greece, Syria, Palestine, Morocco, Germany, America like the table of contents of a hand-book of geography. It gives me pleasure to turn over the pages of this journal of my enthusiastically vagrant youth, as it did, when a child, to look over the herbarium in which I preserved, with dates and names, the plants gathered in my school-boy walks. Innumerable human silhouettes take life for me across these pages. Those that I evoke most gladly are faces of women, seen for a week, a day, an hour the romance of whose lives I divined (or, per haps, imagined) from some sudden incident of travel. Some of these occurrences are recent, others remote. One or two remain associated with tragic memories. I have brought together several of them which seem to me to form a whole, giving them this common title of Voyw geuses, because it is really a series of portraits of women whom I have met thus casually, sketched in the rapid light of the most ¿eeting impression. For once our paths crossed, never again to meet in this world. In regard to most of them, I do not know where they live. 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.