The Story of My Childhood (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Story of My Childhood Wounded to the heart, I also left the paternal roof: my mother, my sister, my brothers, the friendships of my childhood, all had disappeared. I entered on a life of trial and of loneliness. At first I lived at Bayonne, and the waves rolling from America to break along the coast seemed to image forth my father's death. The white sea-birds came to tell me they had seen him. What was left to me? Only my native land, my native air, and these I was soon forced to leave. My way lay northward, to listen to a foreign tongue, and dwell under a hostile sky, in a land where the earth wears mourning for six months in the year. During the long winter, when even my imagination was extinguished by my fail ing health, I could only with great difficulty recall the idea of a southern clime. In default of any other little pet which might have consoled me, I made friends of two little turtle-doves, reminding me of those which my mother had loved so much. They knew me, were fond of me, and made themselves happy at my fireside. There was no summer in my heart, but I offered them a semblance of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.