Excerpt from Letters of Travel Mam After the gloom of gray Atlantic weather, our ship came to America in a flood of Winter sunshine that made unaccustomed eyelids blink, and the New Yorker, who is nothing if not modest, said, This isn't a sample of our really fine days; wait until such and such times come, or go to such and such a quarter of the city. We were content, and more than content, to drift aimlessly up and down the brilliant streets, wondering a little why the finest light should be wasted on the worst ...
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Excerpt from Letters of Travel Mam After the gloom of gray Atlantic weather, our ship came to America in a flood of Winter sunshine that made unaccustomed eyelids blink, and the New Yorker, who is nothing if not modest, said, This isn't a sample of our really fine days; wait until such and such times come, or go to such and such a quarter of the city. We were content, and more than content, to drift aimlessly up and down the brilliant streets, wondering a little why the finest light should be wasted on the worst pavements in the world; to walk round and round Madison Square, because that was full of beautifully dressed babies playing counting-out games, or to gaze reverently at the broad-shouldered, pug-nosed Irish New York policemen. Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted, working nine hours a day, with the colour and the clean-cut lines of perspective that he makes. That any one should dare to call this climate muggy, yea, even sub tropical, was a Shock. There came such a man, and he said, Go north if you want weather weather that is weather. GO to New England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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