A Girl's Wanderings in HungaryLongmans, Green, 1897 - 332 pages |
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... wife - beater - the Margit- sziget The Spring races - The Emperor Franz Joseph 40 CHAPTER IV Transylvania - An ancient metropolis - A charming old lady and a bit of her history - Fleas - Midnight musings and what came of them - Ilka ...
... wife - beater - the Margit- sziget The Spring races - The Emperor Franz Joseph 40 CHAPTER IV Transylvania - An ancient metropolis - A charming old lady and a bit of her history - Fleas - Midnight musings and what came of them - Ilka ...
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... wife - Housekeeping in Hungary - The price of a wife - Slovák courtship - Karpathian heights . CHAPTER XVIII Somogy - megye- The majolica and faïence factory at Pécs - Wild- boar hunting - A precocious baby - Wild ducks and herons Snow ...
... wife - Housekeeping in Hungary - The price of a wife - Slovák courtship - Karpathian heights . CHAPTER XVIII Somogy - megye- The majolica and faïence factory at Pécs - Wild- boar hunting - A precocious baby - Wild ducks and herons Snow ...
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... wife , whose long residence in the gay Austrian capital had naturally imbued them with a good many Austrian prejudices . They looked upon Hungary as ' the end of the earth , ' and the Hungarians as a nation of ' bar- barians . ' They ...
... wife , whose long residence in the gay Austrian capital had naturally imbued them with a good many Austrian prejudices . They looked upon Hungary as ' the end of the earth , ' and the Hungarians as a nation of ' bar- barians . ' They ...
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... to be seen without a long wooden pipe , having a china bowl , in their mouths , but their wives and daughters don't often smoke at all until they are old , so this accomplishment is a sign of bon ton in the feminine sex.
... to be seen without a long wooden pipe , having a china bowl , in their mouths , but their wives and daughters don't often smoke at all until they are old , so this accomplishment is a sign of bon ton in the feminine sex.
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... wife , brought up his children to be ladies and gentlemen , and died , bequeathing to them not only his hoards and his houses , his vineyards and his cornfields , but also his linguistic abilities and his social ambitions . It did not ...
... wife , brought up his children to be ladies and gentlemen , and died , bequeathing to them not only his hoards and his houses , his vineyards and his cornfields , but also his linguistic abilities and his social ambitions . It did not ...
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