Three Vassar Girls in England: A Holiday Excursion of Three College Girls Through the Mother Country (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Elizabeth W. Champney

9780260972118: Three Vassar Girls in England: A Holiday Excursion of Three College Girls Through the Mother Country (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0260972118 ISBN 13: 9780260972118

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Excerpt from Three Vassar Girls in England: A Holiday Excursion of Three College Girls Through the Mother Country

ND in spite of all this I do not like the English! Barbara Atchison I You surely do not mean that you do not like your cousins. No, I except them. They seem to me almost like Americans; but English people typically and collectively impress me as the most antipathetic, - the most disagreeable on the face of the earth.

And yet, remarked Cecilia Boylston, the eldest of the three, a dignified girl with a face as pure and clear as her pebble eye glasses, you were in raptures a moment ago over this fascinating little country-house, with the ivy clinging to the stepped gables, making such a rich contrast to the red brick, over this cozy alcoved window, with that wonderful View, over all the quaint ways of the household, and the Chippendale furniture. What is it that strikes the false note?

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