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FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND, ETC.
from the eaves outside. And so, if my journey, like that of Obidah, the son of Abensina, has in its discrepancies between expectation and realization, promise and performance, resembled the great journey of life, I trust to be not very severely dealt with by the reader who has accompanied me this far, and to whom I have striven to communicate, as fairly as I have been able, and as fully as circumstances have permitted my First Impressions of England and its People.
