Image: Domestic manners of the Americans (1832) (14587218219)

Description: Identifier: domesticmannerso01troluoft (find matches) Title: Domestic manners of the Americans Year: 1832 (1830s) Authors: Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863 Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs Publisher: London Printed for Whittaker, Treacher Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: 38 DOMESTIC MANNERS trees, which had been cut away to open a passage, were left standing three feet high. Over these, the high-hung Deerborn, as our carriage was called, passed safely; but it required some miles of experience to convince us that every stump would not be our last; it was amusing to watch the cool and easy skill with which the driver wound his horses and wheels among these stumps. I thought he might have been imported to Bond- street with great advantage. The forest became thicker and more dreary-looking every mile we advanced, but our ever-grinning negro declared it was a right good road, and that we should be sure to get to Nashoba. And so we did . . . . . . . . . . and one glance sufficed to convince me that every idea I had formed of the place was as far as possible from the truth. Desolation was the only feeling —the only word that presented itself: but it was not spoken. I think, however, that Miss Wright was aware of the painful impression the sight of her forest home produced on me, and I doubt not that the conviction reached us both at the same moment, that we had erred in thinking that a few Text Appearing After Image: SETTLEMENT OF NASHOBA OF THE AMERICANS. 39 months passed together at this spot could be pro- ductive of pleasure to either. But to do her justice, I beheve her mind was so exclusively occupied by the object she had then in view, that all things else were worthless, or indifferent to her. I never heard or read of any enthusiasm ap- proaching hers, except in some few instances, in ages past, of religious fanaticism. It must have been some feeling equally powerful which enabled Miss Wright, accustomed to all the comfort and refinement of Europe, to imagine not only that she herself could exist in this wilderness, but that her European friends could enter there, and not feel dismayed at the savage aspect of the scene. The annexed plate gives a faithful view of the cleared space and buildings which form the settlement. Each building consisted of two large rooms furnished in the most simple manner; nor had they as yet collected round them any of these minor comforts wjich ordinary minds class among the necessaries of life. But in this our philoso- phical friend seemed to see no evil : nor was there any mixture of affectation in this indiffer- ence ; it was a circimistance really and truly Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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