The Romance of My Childhood And Youth

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill THE MARRIAGE OF MY FATHER AND MOTHER 0 DAUGHTER, Olympe, was born to them after the German woman's departure; her mother nursed her, brought her up with loving care, and you may be sure that the imaginative Pelagic dreamed at an early hour of the possible romance of the future marriage of her only child. Unfortunately Olympe distressed her by the fantastical turn of her mind. She took great interest from her earliest age in the details of housekeeping, was troublesome, humdrum even, said her mother. She disliked to read, was much annoyed at her father's absence from home, whose motives she loudly incriminated. Urged to this by the servants' stories, she quarrelled with him, bitterly reproached her mother for the number of books she read; and she introduced into the home, where the careless indifference