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424 NOTICES OP BOOKS,
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Foreign Literature.
without neighbours kind , the of Turks apology _,- _^ -and for so a man doing will Even not during as much the as perio mention d of courtshi his wife
if cavalier such a a sty term le . may A pair be app of l lied overs in h this ave be case . , seen they p are rocee treated ding from in a one very village cool and p to , seated his horseand
to smoking another dream — his the of pi dismounting pe gentleman , while-the c lad or omfortabl y taking ran barefoot y her tip by before on his side him , without , Xet his there , moreo appearing was ve no r ,
. then mistake cast as to the languishing relation in looks which at they the fair stood one , for and the even lover draw would her now to and his
side " B occasionall y way very of seated y companion and give her to small this a kiss picture . and , we his find wife , another of behind a great with robust
Montenegrin stick to drive it on , beside upon s a being laden ass , with a part of running the baggage , while the a ass ¦ carried nothing but the portly figure of her all assembled lord and master . at
earl ' As hour the weather at the bazaar had now before cleared the up Mumera , we gate to set one off morning on our long an looked y for excursion to Montenegroand found our horses and our Montenegrin
now friends and waiting then as for they us , saw as well occasion as a , , crowd lengthene of idle d a lookers stirrup on for , who one , lent pulled a hand at a carried blittle
horse travelled cord , for and another foot a , handsome and About so on a Montenegrin . dozen Our of carpet her girl bags countrymen , about were twenty on horseback years y a of age accom , pack who
on . ascend panied us the , and mountain so our path little caravan with the moved usual out farewell of the salute bazaar of , and the began firing of to
p to istols travel on in the this top large of the party first , , but rock for we the reached mere . sake It of was security certainl I was y agreeable told the
safer company here of than the when girl onl in y the would company have of been a woman quite , sufficient young or . old No " . I myself is ever der the
protection pass knew from a _G- the erman of an Vladsh pai old nter woman a himself who , and went . A considered rambling woman may himself all about go in more Montenegro and secure out anywhere than un with as a and if he did he would
she pleases himself ; no one not offers onlto her the the slightest offence of her , kindredbut to universal contempt expose . " , y vengeance ,
It is not very easy to say whether this curious kind of inviolability rests on the high , or low opinion entertained of the sex . The
fair Johanna , the maid of Montenegro above mentioned , who trotted along laden with her two heavy carpet-bags , very nearly keeping up
with horsemen , never experienced the smallest impertinence , though _, the only woman present , and both young and remarkably handsome .
None of the . party of twenty , mostly young and unmarried men , ventured on the smallest freedom towards her , or allowed himself
the most innocent jest . On the other hand it must be added that they seemed to have forgotten too that she stood in need of mortal
refreshments that reminds us well a little as her o f th male e co companions laint of an , — ill a - mode used of lover treatment which . mp
wo have somewhere heard : — " But Perhaps why it did was you rig lack ht to me dissemble down stairs your ? love " ,
( To be continued . ) " m
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424 Notices Op Books,
424 NOTICES OP BOOKS ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 424, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/64/
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